Afghanistan’s stance on slavery has undergone a dramatic legal reversal in recent years. Under the Taliban’s current governance, since 2021, the country’s new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reparations for slavery and historic discrimination against African Americans once seemed like a pipe dream. But momentum for it ...

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 ...

New York City will soon be the largest city in the U.S. to enact a reparations program. Councilmembers Crystal Hudson and Farah Louis sponsored a pair of bills to establish a Truth, Healing and ...

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

IN SEPTEMBER 1834, the Concord Anti-Slavery Society invited delegates from fellow anti-slavery societies in New Hampshire and all “… persons who believe that ...

The 28th annual meeting of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife held June 20-22, 2003. " ... the purpose of this conference was to examine a New England perspective on American slavery, not ...

On March 8, 1825, Lucy and Lois Tritton were paraded through the streets of New Haven, led by a drummer shouting “slaves for sale.” The mother and daughter were then marched, likely with potential ...