In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton....
Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who led a slave revolt with an army numbering in the tens of thousands. He defeated Roman forces...
As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about the country’s...
Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. as issued by President Lincoln’s Emancipation...
As the story of Juneteenth is told by modern-day historians, enslaved Black people were freed by laws, not combat. Union Gen. Gordon...
Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War,...
That’s his name, don’t wear it out. Kanye West’s chief of staff, Milo Yiannopoulos, demanded in a letter that...
In the gallery with 18 Cats just below, watch just how these cats look when the “slave” is back home! Our furries are always most...
Archaeologists in the Bahamas have identified the underwater wrecks of 14 sailing ships involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade...
A new project is aimed at recovering the names of about 10 million women, men and children of African descent who were enslaved in...
Some of the companies that formed what is now Citigroup likely benefitted financially from slavery in the 1800’s, the financial giant...
A new museum Alabama tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavementMOBILE,...
France’s highest court has rejected a request by three groups seeking reparations for slavery in a case that originated on the French...
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has apologized for his country’s role in slavery and asked forgiveness on the anniversary...
