In Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World (Monthly Review Press, 2025), Steve Cushion lays bare the ...

Explore the truths behind Civil War and slavery myths that persist in America and understand the real history behind them.

WGAL NEWS 8 IN LANCASTER COUNTY. CHRISTINA HERITAGE DAYS IS BEING CELEBRATED TOMORROW AND THIS YEAR THEY’RE REMEMBERING AN EVENT FROM 1851. THAT’S WHEN FUGITIVE SLAVES CONFRONTED A SLAVEHOLDER FROM ...

Episode 205: In this episode, Major Clayton McBurney III, the eccentric head of the hospital, has closed the contraband school. While discussing the school closing, Charlotte tells Samuel that she ...

Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery opened its doors to the public late last week, showcasing what Michael Morand and Charles Warner, Jr. have curated through accessing mountains of ...

A more than 200-year-old fugitive slave ad reads: “Run away from the subscriber in Albemarle, a Mulatto slave called Sandy. His stature is rather low, inclining to corpulence, and his complexion light ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The cast of 'Finding Freedom: The Journey of Robert Smalls,' produced by the Charleston Gaillard ...

Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland -- Free trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade? -- Revolt! Africans conspire with the French and Spanish ...

A story of resistance that would continue to be told through the years in verse and on film began in 1839 when Portuguese kidnappers forced large numbers of native Africans from an area in present-day ...

In a virtual award ceremony held Thursday, Frederick Douglass Book Prize recipients Vincent Brown and Marjoleine Kars underscored the importance of slavery studies in historical education programs.

Before queer historian Rebecca Hall, PhD, was the author of the groundbreaking new graphic memoir, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts, she was a lawyer frustrated with the pervasive ...