A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and ...

The Bight of Biafra and slavery / Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy -- The era of trans-Atlantic slave trade -- The slave ports of the Bight of Biafra in the eighteenth century / Paul E. Lovejoy ...

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

His Ghanaian biographer Kofi Ayim describes his story as “one of extraordinary resilience, courage, and enduring legacy.” A product of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Jack Cudjoe or Cudjo Bakwante ...

Introduction / Kristin Mann and Philip Misevich -- Slavery and the slave trade -- Consuming goods, consuming people : reflections on the transatlantic slave trade / David Richardson -- Caribbean ...

In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wi ...

The recent opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is part of a long and slow national reckoning on race, but some chapters on race are still missing from ...

The contributions of Olaudah Equiano to the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade are as impressive as they are numerous. Equiano was a voice for the thousands of Africans being enslaved by Europeans, ...

SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Eighty-five years to the day that his grandmother passed away, John Crear is remembering her legacy. Her name was Matilda McCrear, and she was the last known survivor of the ...

Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...