The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis • The Washinton Family • Washington's Letter to Robert Morris Though only 25% of the colonial population owned slaves, slavery factored heavily in ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

Like the slaves, sailors rose up against their horrific working and living conditions. Insurrections on land, even if crushed by a colonial military, shook the existing power structure to its ...

More than 100 descendants of people who were enslaved during the colonial era have applied to change their names since a ...

A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives aims to create a commission to study and develop reparations proposals for African ...

These figures were made to coincide with the freeing of slaves in British colonies in 1834Although the British Parliament abolished the Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1807, the slaves in British ...

Officials from David Lammy’s department set to meet Caribbean delegation demanding trillions of pounds, sources claim ...

Trinity College is Ireland's oldest university The investigation into TCD's links with slavery and colonialism is due to take two years and the findings will be published. The Colonial Legacies ...