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

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 ...

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 ...

Caribbean officials are demanding trillions of pounds from the UK as the Foreign Office is open to reparations for slavery.

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

In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

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 ...

When you think about slavery in the United States you probably think about it happening in the deep south in the 1800’s and causing the Civil War. However, slavery was ...

While France embraced the formal regulation of historical memory regarding its colonial past nearly two decades ago with the ...

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 ...