Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...

In the late 18th century, when slavery was still widespread in Canada, Marie-Josèphe Angélique, an enslaved woman accused of ...

Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features. Broadside advertising a slave auction outside of ...

Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the ...

NPR's Miles Parks talks to Reuters editor Tom Lasseter about a project highlighting how many people in power in the U.S. today have ancestors who enslaved people. As we look ahead to July Fourth ...

Back in January, Florida barred its schools from piloting an Advanced Placement course in African American studies. At the time, the state’s evaluators justified this decision with reference to the ...

I think that there's a strategy to divide and conquer and to create a very contrived confusion,” said  Samuel Okuzeto ...

As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I often hear remarks like, “Slavery was totally different back then, right?” “Well, it couldn’t have been ...

The Avenging the Ancestors Coalition will hold its 24th annual Slavery Commiseration at 6th and Market streets.

Enslaved people helped build the foundation of CT. Get to know the lives they lived. Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Enslaved people helped build the foundation of much ...