In addition to her work on the Underground Railroad, Tubman also served as a Union spy. Introduction...
Slavery
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...
The Portuguese ultimately took control of worldwide sugar production in the 15th century. Introduction From a humble...
As the English colonized more land, they imported more slaves to work it. Introduction Racialized chattel slavery...
White masters could treat slaves as just another possession to be used and then disposed of when...
They did not run haphazardly into the woods, but established creative and subversive escape strategies. Historians once...
The practice continued up through 1900, dramatically impacting Native American cultures, languages, and development. Introduction Slavery was...
Lovejoy belonged to a small fraternity of editor who used their printing presses in the decades before...
A Getty conservator discusses how she protects a rare and important photograph. In late August 1850, Cazenovia,...
A resulting myth has become a symbol of the traumatizing legacy of trans-Atlantic slavery and serves as...
History is full of examples of nations paying out to compensate for slavery. But the money never...
Riots by proslavery forces raged for three days in the nation’s capital after the capture of a...
The movement to grant pensions to ex-slaves faced strong opposition from three executive branch agencies. By Miranda...