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 ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...

Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU. A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and lies about the history of ...

(Reuters) - Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since it enacted a law banning the transatlantic slave trade, although full abolition of slavery did not follow for another generation. Following are ...

W hat does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence. But what counts as evidence, and who has the authority to make those determinations? In part because ...

In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the vision of ...

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 ...

“Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it. By Jennifer Schuessler Come to the ...

Before queer historian Rebecca Hall, PhD, was the author of the groundbreaking new graphic memoir, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts, she was a lawyer frustrated with the pervasive ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Only one in 10 Britons knows when the transatlantic slave trade was abolished and almost half the population has no idea who campaigned to end it, a poll showed on Tuesday. The ...

Louisiana's Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.—lost its federal grants as a result of Trump's attack on DEI. Unfortunately, ...