For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from Africa ...

Jonathan W. White - Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House For decades before the Civil War, slave markets, pens and jails served as holding cells for ...

A slave market in Atlanta, Georgia, 1864. (Photo by George N. Barnard / Courtesy of the Library of Congress) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

As a literary scholar and cultural historian who has spent a lifetime searching out African Americans’ lost, forgotten and otherwise unheralded tales, I was honored to serve as a historical consultant ...

“Master Slave Husband Wife,” by Ilyon Woo, relates the daring escape from bondage in Georgia to freedom in the North by an enslaved couple disguised as a wealthy planter and his property.

Sarah Elizabeth Adams was around 5 when her mother was sold to a slave dealer in Lynchburg, Va. The auction took place in the mid-1840s, in the town of Marion, Va. Sallie, as she was called, was ...

The daring and desperate acts of rebellion from New York to the Caribbean shattered contemporary stereotypes of enslaved peoples and challenged the institution of slavery itself. In 1811, enslaved ...

Archaeologists excavated the jail had to cope with groundwater that filled trenches as fast as they were dug. C. David M Doody / Courtesy Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission Archaeologists ...

Four years ago, The New York Times published The 1619 Project, a collection of stories and essays about the lasting impact of slavery in the United States. Among the many ideas advanced in the project ...

Recent fatal police shootings in the United States have led to a global reckoning on the role of race and injustice in society. In the United Kingdom, this dispute has centered on the country's ...

Slaves were owned in all Islamic societies, both sedentary and nomadic, ranging from Arabia in the centre to North Africa in the west and to what is now Pakistan and Indonesia in the east. Some ...

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