Grant left a legacy of fighting for the rights of enslaved people during and after the Civil...
Slavery
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...
The amendment ended slavery but also enabled a prison system of free labor and involuntary servitude. Introduction...
Before the Civil War, U.S. activists sought to combat slavery through sugar boycotts. Instead, consumption grew. Introduction...
Sugar has deep links with slavery in the U.S. In post-Civil War Louisiana, Chinese workers also toiled...
The biblical story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt is also a historical tale of reparations after...
By the time slavery ended, over 1 million enslaved people had been forcibly moved in the domestic...
Indentured workers were commonly bought and sold when they arrived at their destinations. Introduction Indentured servitude is a...
Cartter played a minor-yet-not-insignificant role at two fateful moments in the life of Abraham Lincoln. By Ann...
In 2019 there were an estimated 40 million people worldwide subject to some form of slavery, 25%...
The taking and sale of captives was a fundamental aspect of Viking activity both within and outside...
The figure of Pitt exposed the implicated nature of neoclassical sculpture and transatlantic slavery. Abstract On July...
As the English colonized North America between 1607-1733, slavery became institutionalized and race-based. Introduction Slavery in Colonial...
As sugar production spread across the Caribbean, it fueled massive growth in African slavery. Introduction The first...