Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Within the walls of The Old Slave Mart, there are newspapers dated back to the 19th century. They showcase front page ads of enslaved people without a voice. "Slavery and ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the American South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images ...

In the past couple of decades, scholars have emphasized the sheer brutality of life under slavery and how that brutality stemmed directly from the fact that slavery was, above all, a business. From ...

(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for ...

The Dutch central bank apologized for its involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 1800s on Friday, the anniversary of the Dutch abolishment of slavery. Klaas Knot, the president of De ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The descendants of a 19th-century Scottish sugar and coffee planter who owned thousands of slaves in Guyana apologized Friday for the sins of their ancestor, calling slavery ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Charles Vanthournout, Université de Lorraine (THE CONVERSATION) When Napoleon embarked ...