"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." We all know the old saying: Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Our past is a part of us, ...

As a child, I learned quickly that two histories were at work in America: the one taught in school about a young, virtuous George Washington refusing to tell a lie about chopping down the cherry tree.

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This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts of the continent ceased to exist. It connects the ...

President Abraham Lincoln, in his Emancipation Proclamation, declared, “…all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State… shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free…” The ...

For Harpham’s explanation of how England came to view the enslavement of others as both a violation of nature and a legitimate institution, all roads ultimately lead back to Rome, and Roman law in ...

"A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery ...

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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.