Examining the mostly forgotten rebellions against plantation owners by enslaved people. Introduction From Nat Turner’s insurrection in...
Slavery
Enslaved Africans were forcibly made to traverse multiple circum-Caribbean points throughout their lives. By Dr. Jennifer WolffPrograms...
Formerly enslaved men and women were constantly acting within networks. Introduction Peggy Winn had every reason to...
Urban renewal incubated a growing commercial sex industry, which in turn fueled a new demand for human...
Black South Carolinians sought justice in this 54-foot-long petition. In the wake of emancipation during the Civil...
The revolution was the largest slave uprising since Spartacus’ unsuccessful revolt against the Roman Republic. Introduction The Haitian...
Abolitionists pointed to example after example of horrific violence against enslaved people. Atlantic slavery was a violent...
Insights into the lives of African Americans at Arlington and other plantations in the Upper South. The...
What we know about slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies is that it was horrific. Introduction As...
Slave trading in Europe from Late Antiquity to the twelfth century. Introduction The image of the early...
His push to allow human chattel in Nebraska lit a match to the Civil War. One of...
Former slave stories from mountain communities like Liberia, South Carolina, are emerging from history. Beneath the brush...
Grant left a legacy of fighting for the rights of enslaved people during and after the Civil...
21 states currently have slavery and involuntary servitude language still in their constitutions or as laws. This...
Linguists believe Black English might have originated from West African or Creole languages. What brought you to...
Ferrez’s photography concealed slavery’s violence through visual strategies that help maintain racist social hierarchies. Introduction Did you...
From the anti-slavery movement to civil rights, African Americans have defined freedom and shaped the American experience....
Modern policing has passed through various developmental stages that can be explained by typologies – this is...
Slave patrols slowly morphed into policing units in charge of breaking up insurgencies after the Civil War....
Examining the archaeology of slavery in the Caribbean sugar plantations. Sugar and Slavery The introduction of sugar...
European contact greatly influenced slavery as it existed among pre-contact Native Americans, particularly in scale. Introduction Slavery...
The Slave Narrative Collection provides a unique and virtually unsurpassed collective portrait of an historical population. Introduction...
Their fight for more authority and a voice at the plantation has finally been won. Introduction On...
In addition to her work on the Underground Railroad, Tubman also served as a Union spy. Introduction...
The pressure for real change can only come from the pinch of the garment industries’ pocketbooks by...
About 170 million are engaged in child labor, with many to satisfy the demand of consumers in...
African peoples quickly began to see the bewildering new threat to them from these strange visitors with...
The Mexican-American War, to the South, was an effort to gain more territory for the establishment of...
This legislation was asked for by President Grant and passed within one month of when he sent...
Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people. Introduction Buying items...