The more that Laura Trevelyan unpicked her family history, the more disturbing details she found. "I knew my family in the 19th century was prominent in colonialism and in the empire," the former BBC ...
The Great Resistance, an expansive new book by author and historian Carrie Gibson, brings together often unheard narratives to tell the bigger picture of a difficult time The Great Resistance is ...
According to one strand of history, slavery was abolished when Europeans found their conscience. According to another, it was abolished when it stopped being profitable. Both approaches tend to ...
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.
Sven Beckert is professor of American history at Harvard and author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History, just published by Alfred A. Knopf. Without understanding the past, it is difficult to grapple ...
Probably over a quarter of the people living under ancient Roman rule were slaves - but they were kept so suppressed, there is little known about them. Keith Bradley looks for clues to the lives they ...
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Trump administration’s interpretation of slavery under George Washington can be reinstalled
The new historical panels were designed to replace ones put up in 2010 that told the story of how nine slaves lived in the President's House in Philadelphia in the 1790s.
On Thursday June 11, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was speaking to a Sydney radio station about the removal of slavery statues during the global Black Lives Matter protests when he reflected there was ...
Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...
Doudou Diène is a prominent Senegalese jurist born in 1941, who has exerted significant influence in the global sphere of racism and discrimination. His work as United Nations Special Rapporteur on ...
The Trump administration followed through on its pledge to rework and then reinstall panels about slavery at the site of ...
The Trump administration has compelled national parks—including Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Manassas National Battlefield Park, Independence National Historical Park, and the President’s ...
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