The Underground Railroad didn’t just head North – also led to Mexico. The Underground Railroad also ran...
Slavery
Explore the global history of slavery from the ancient world through the modern era, focusing on systems of exploitation and the lives of enslaved people.
Published by Revistas, Mare Nostrum, 08.09.2019, under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.
His work catapulted Powers to international fame in the 19th century. Introduction They say Ideal beauty cannot...
Spirituals were created out of the experience of enslaved people in the U.S. They were songs of...
The history of slave rebels and resistance in the Caribbean is a rich and complicated story. Marissa:...
The most lucrative cash crops to emerge from the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were...
Fictional accounts of white Southerners make it seem it was fun to be a slave on a...
The spread of Christianity in the Early Middle Ages (from the fifth to tenth centuries) marked the...
Slavery, for many civilizations throughout human history, has been an inescapable fact. By Harrison Kavanagh Like all...
Native American assistance to freedom seekers crossing through the Midwest has largely been erased from Underground Railroad...
Two factors overlapped to result in the genocide of the Kikotan people. Reckoning with the past is...
Critics get the past wrong. Four hundred years after the event, the New York Times has published...
Arguments made by eighteenth-century writers about the slave trade and contributions to those debates by freed slave...
Now, intrepid scholars are saving those parish baptismal records from war, neglect, and rot. By Paula Wasley...
The tragedy of treating people as property has left only scattered scraps to hint at their cultures...
“Alabama Fever” triggered a takeover by cotton planters of America’s oldest indigenous region. The Old South wasn’t...
He considered it the most democratic of arts and a crucial aid in the quest to end...
Examining evidence that enslaved persons were involved in the construction of the original Smithsonian Building in Washington,...
Slavery, long banned and universally condemned, persists in many corners of the world, victimizing tens of millions...
Despite the rosy image painted by the Catholic Church to cover up his reign of terror, Father...
Through its representation of physical and psychological effects, Séjour’s story inaugurated the literary delineation of slavery’s submission-rebellion...
A bill of lading is a document issued by a carrier to a shipper acknowledging receipt of...
Roman honor and shame became Christian virtue and shame. The Christian reinterpretation of the classical Roman dichotomy...
Team member Felix Knight looks through archives at the Church of Espiritu Santo in Havana, Cuba. David LaFevor...
After the Caribbean was first colonised by Spain in the 15th century, a system of sugar planting...
Slaves loading rum barrels from Ten Views in the Island of Antigua (1823) by William Clark. Courtesy British Library/Wikipedia...
Maroons ambush British troops on the Dromilly Estate, Jamaica / British Library, Public Domain Jamaican Maroons fought...
A marble relief panel from Smyrna showing Roman slaves in chains. 200 CE. (Ashmolean Musuem, Oxford, UK)...
She took the international abolitionist stage during the Civil War. By Adam McNeil / 07.13.2018 PhD Student in Black...
Etching of mid-19th century Havana / Creative Commons In the sixty years after 1807, many former slave...