23 August is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, a date that marks the beginning of the end for the transatlantic slave trade. Unfortunately, this event did ...

Throughout the Americas, acts of resistance undermined slaveholders’ power, destabilized systems of slavery and hastened ...

(WHTM) Pennsylvania had slaves before Pennsylvania was even Pennsylvania. Dutch and Swedish settlers in the Delaware Valley held Africans as slaves. When William Penn and the Society of Friends ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...

Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African ...

PARIS (AP) — Vandals have defaced a monument celebrating the abolition of slavery in southern France, in an apparent response to growing anger over entrenched racism and calls for the removal of ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands apologized Saturday for his country’s role in slavery and asked for forgiveness during a historic speech greeted by cheers and whoops at an ...

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 ...

A haunting sketch of a ship captain assaulting a teenage slave girl who later died was a major driving force behind the abolitionist movement, experts have revealed. Captain John Kimber was accused of ...