Roman slaves ate grain, beans, oil, olives, weak wine, and scraps, but every meal was shaped by...
Slavery
Collard greens have a longer, stranger history than most people realize, connecting medieval foodways, plant migration, and...
The kola nut’s history stretches from West African ritual and medicine to colonial science, global trade, and...
African American gospel music transformed sorrow, worship, and protest into a sacred sound of survival, liberation, and...
Ancient slavery did not erase family life among the enslaved; it made kinship conditional, fragile, and vulnerable...
The transatlantic and domestic slave trades shattered enslaved families through capture, sale, forced migration, and law, yet...
Jane Austen’s brothers moved within Britain’s abolition-era world, where naval service, empire, reform, and moral politics shaped...
The myth that Hebrew slaves built the pyramids fused Exodus, Herodotus, medieval legend, and Hollywood into one...
Under slavery, trust could become deadly, as kidnappers, false allies, paternalists, and conditional reformers turned “help” into...
Confederate conscription exposed deep class divisions, as the “Twenty Negro Law” exempted slaveholders, fueling resentment among soldiers...
Slavery was sustained not only by violence on plantations or decisions in Parliament, but by the routine...
The pose is fascinating for all it suggests about Brown’s hopes for the country and the actions...
George and his wife, Caroline, secretly—and dangerously—used their home as a stop on the Underground Railroad. What...
The encounter between African religions and Christianity in the Americas produced spiritual systems that were neither simple...
Victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions. By Dr. Shoshi ParksAnthropologist and Writer No Pacific Islander was safe from...
An artist drew the rebels as they stood trial, leaving behind an invaluable record. By Dr. Kate...
Sugar plantations are a phenomenon tied to European colonization of the Americas. Introduction A sugar plantation dominates...
The evangelical emphasis on biblical authority and personal conversion created a volatile mixture. It could be invoked...
The study of late medieval sex trafficking makes clear that poverty and limited economic opportunities for women...
One legacy of perseverance and productivity, and another of profound injustice. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction...
They wanted slavery abolished while simultaneously defending it. By Dr. Timothy Messer-KruseAmerican Historian It’s been five years...
The African island nation played a central—but little-known—role in the rise of the global sugar trade. By...
The GOP is seeking to downplay the role that slavery played in the development of the U.S....
By the time of the American Revolution, slavery had existed in British mainland North America for over...
Propaganda is cheap to produce on the web. By Alex AmendFreelance Writer and Researcher A purposeful lie...
Garrisonians called the Constitution a “covenant with death” and “an agreement with Hell.” Introduction The abolitionist William...
Lawmakers whose Southern ancestors owned slaves before abolition have a higher net worth today. By Neil SehgalPhD...
Everyone supposedly has them, but where exactly do human rights come from? By Dr. Bennett PartenAssistant Professor...
Onesimus never got the credit he was due. By Dr. LaShyra “Lash” NolenMD/MPP Candidate ‘24, Harvard Medical...
The activist power of print across a transatlantic network. In the summer of 1861, the physician, editor,...