On May 15, 1905, a Maraka noble in modern-day Mali killed a slave who was part of a broader slave exodus that helped bring the end to official slavery in.
This is the slave graveyard at Monticello. The debate about Thomas Jefferson and slavery is now completely settled. Thanks to DNA and to scholars such as Annette Gordon-Reed exploring in.
The daily horrors of the slave trade are just too much for us to quite comprehend. Here is a new discovery: In the early 15th century, Portuguese explorers like Henry.
Vanessa Holden and Ed Baptist have a typically excellent article placing the recent spate of news stories about random white people calling the police on black people for doing basically.
I have a piece in the New York Times on the prison strike and the historical context of white coercion of black labor that has never ended. The Civil War.
One of the biggest weaknesses of any constitutional amendment is that of the 13th Amendment, allowing for unpaid labor by prisoners. Whether its writers thought through the potential repercussions of.
I have no idea what bizarre world Kanye West is in, but the historian Tera Hunter speaks some real truth over the supposed "choice" that some freed slaves made to.
Above: Slaves at a coffee yard in a farm. Vale do Paraiba, Sao Paulo, 1882 On May 13, 1888, Brazil abolished slavery. The last nation in the Western Hemisphere to.
