What happened in the rest of the world was that all of Western civilization eventually turned against slavery in the 19th century. This meant the end of slavery in European empires around the ...

In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...

If such a line as “Mason-Dixon” existed (actually, there were a series of lines drawn by “compromising” Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided ...

It surveys the structure of slavery in the nineteenth century United States South; slavery's legacy in the United States; and its twenty-first century reincarnation in human trafficking and forced ...

What is one to make of the career of Dr. Joseph Dennis Harris, which once soared far beyond the strictures of race and class ...

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...

For the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat at the ...

19th Century American Poets: Whittier, Garrison & the Anti-Slavery Movement Posted: March 16, 2025 | Last updated: March 16, 2025 The film depicts the life of John Greenleaf Whittier, a Quaker ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of historian Rebecca Hall’s collaboration with artist Hugo Martínez, Wake: ...

This project aims at examining the circulation and the implementation of a common post-slavery pattern as the key and masterpiece which has enabled the pervasiveness of the socio-racial inequalities ...

UNITED NATIONS -- The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica ...