It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas, “filled with Biblical and historical images, with many ...
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 ...
Enslaved people helped build the foundation of CT. Get to know the lives they lived. Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Enslaved people helped build the foundation of much ...
What was it like to live as an enslaved family right here in the Triangle area? Today, you can visit remains of one of the state’s largest plantations – and learn the names and stories of hundreds of ...
The university also issued a historical study and announced steps to address this legacy, including new support for public education in New Haven, Conn. By Jennifer Schuessler Yale University on ...
Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...
At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...
The Whitney Plantation stands as a profound monument to the history of slavery in the Southern United States. Located in ...
“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler “In Slavery’s Wake,” a new exhibition ...
Montero is the author of The Stolen Wealth of Slavery (LegacyLit/Hachette). His previous book was Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network (Viking, 2018) In 1855, when Stephen Duncan, ...
It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent, ...
Chance Bonar works at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, and is affiliated with their ongoing Slavery, Colonialism, and Their Legacies at Tufts University project. The effects of ...