Drimachus led a slave revolt on Chios, ruling a rogue stronghold before betrayal. Organized resistance like that of Spartacus ...

An exhibition is showing 13 stories of fugitive slaves that were published in newspapers in the 18th Century. Artist Heather Marks is using material from archives in Bristol to reveal the hidden ...

In 1825, Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Written by Himself became the first known fugitive-slave narrative in American history. Although earlier autobiographical accounts of slavery had ...

In 1857, an 18-year-old female slave, Lear Green, who had been repeatedly raped and forced into prostitution by her white owner, one James Noble, was surreptitiously placed in a wooden seaman’s chest ...

Betty's daughter -- New York-bound -- New York in black and white -- The move to Philadelphia -- The blacks in the family -- Life in Philadelphia -- The wedding -- The fugitive -- Slavery and freedom ...

It started with an email. Lindsay Alukonis, a diocesan archivist at the Diocese of Arlington, reached out to an anthropology professor at Catholic University for help in October 2022. A large, ...

Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror ...

In honor of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, it is important to revisit the lesser-known and deeply disturbing truths about slavery in ...

What William Grimes wanted John Quincy Adams to know about freedom on the 50th anniversary of the country’s founding ...

Digging a stadium-sized scoop out of one of the oldest sections of a city brimming with history is bound to unearth fragments of the past. In Shockoe Bottom, those fragments are likely to have a ...