In Born in Blackness, Howard W. French explores Africa’s critical role in shaping the modern world through the transatlantic ...

Blackburn situates his economic history of the second slavery against the backdrop of a growing antislavery politics emerging in the rest of the world. After the Napoleonic Wars and the 1815 ...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday acknowledged how the horrific history of slavery has connected the ... and the United States holds a lesson for the world. Two nations with a shared history, an ...

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin added the January 6 riot to a list of the worst moments in history on Monday, alongside ...

Evidence suggests that slavery in Ethiopia was intricately woven into the fabric of ancient empires, religious institutions, ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

This tapestry depicts Democratic Republic of Congo’s history across eras, drawing connections between Swahili slave traders and Belgian colonial officials.

What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the ...

The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of ...

How does a country recover from centuries of slavery and racism? In the US, a growing number of voices are saying the answer is reparations. Reparations are a restitution for slavery - an apology ...

Slavery and a trade in people was commonplace in the ancient world, an essential source of controlled labour. Strabo, a Greek geographer, tells of the export of slaves from Late Iron Age Britain ...