By Edward Adjei FRIMPONG Ghana’s coastline bears powerful footprints of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, marked by historic sites such as Cape Coast Castle, Elmina Castle and the Slave River at Assin ...

When Britain abolished slavery in its empire in 1833, it paid the equivalent of hundreds of billions today in compensation—not to the enslaved, but to the slave owners. It was an imperfect, morally ...

Rob Lawlor received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This funded a project and a number of events that allowed me to collaborate with researchers from other disciplines, ...

Although many enslaved people tried to escape what was formally known as "chattel slavery," Tubman is the most-remembered ...

Anti-Catholicism was not a central force driving the colonists to revolt, but it played a role, shaping their political ...

The Archdiocese of Washington launches a historic initiative to honor people enslaved by the Church in Maryland, including ...

More than two centuries ago, an enslaved man named Gabriel was making final preparations to lead a revolt in Richmond that he hoped would spur the end of slavery. He was smart, he was armed and he was ...

The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.

'The Legacy of Black Horsemen' tells the story of the jockeys and trainers in the 1800s who helped establish the Thoroughbred industry. The Legacy of Black Horsemen, an hour-long historical ...

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) When Britain abolished slavery in its empire in 1833, it paid the equivalent of hundreds of billions today in compensation – not to the enslaved, but to the slave owners. It ...