Once a holding cell for kidnapped Africans, the island’s House of Slaves is today a UNESCO World Heritage site—and the site of healing and atonement.

Slavery can broadly be described as the ownership, buying and selling of human beings. Slavery is one of the things that everyone agrees is unethical. Slavery can broadly be described as the ...

Instead, you would see tens of millions of native people already living in the Americas, joined by an extraordinary flow not of European colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as ...

A statue celebrating members of the Royal Navy who helped to end the Atlantic slave trade is yet to find a home. Colin Kemp, from Portsmouth, has fundraised nearly £70,000 for the memorial to the ...

Winooski had a short time as a community in the 19th century. Its most famous resident was a well-known abolitionist who had ...

A slave might receive a tip for special services. In the spring of 1768, when George Washington left the home of his brother-in-law, Burwell Bassett, he was probably acting properly when he left ...