Posing as a runaway slave during the Revolutionary War, James Armistead acted as a double agent for the Continental Army and ...
Below are some excerpts from a speech on the meaning of the Fourth of July delivered by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New ...
The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...
The first nude sculpture of a woman widely seen by the American public depicted a slave, just decades before the Civil War. Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave now at the Smithsonian ...
Philip Misevich, Daniel Domingues, David Eltis, Nafees M. Khan and Nicholas Radburn, The Conversation Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave ...
SlaveVoyages, a tool for data on history's largest slave trades, is getting a new home. Word of the project's upcoming move was shared recently by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher ...
At a “high-level United Nations consultative conference” in Ghana earlier this month, African and Caribbean countries called ...
Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave vessels. Before 1820, four enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic for every European, making Africa the ...