The President’s House site, where George Washington once enslaved Africans while serving as president, has been named one of America’s 11 most endangered historic places. The designation, announced on ...
As many as 5.3 million people were enslaved in Dutch colonies between 1595 and 1914, according to new research that puts the ...
Sweet Home Feliciana’ by UChicago’s Rashauna Johnson moves between family memoir and global events to examine how Black ...
Racism has existed across civilizations and throughout time, but in the United States it has specific ties to the institution of slavery. For hundreds of years, Black Africans and Americans were held ...
Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative released a public database Tuesday identifying 1,613 people who were enslaved by ...
India has the highest number of slaves in the world and it is in the forms of bonded labour, child trafficking and forced marriages. Many people, especially from lower castes, are trapped in bonded ...
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People across Florida are celebrating the day slavery ended in the Sunshine State.
The U.S., Israel and Argentina on Wednesday voted against a United Nations resolution led by Ghana to label the international slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and call for ...