The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...

Every chapter invokes a name. Among them Sabina, “given” to Mercy and Shubael Taylor (in what is now Yarmouth) in the late ...

The roots of American slavery precede early modern European thought and extend back to Greece and Rome.

At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...

Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens ...

Ahead of Black History Month, National Geographic is launching a powerful new podcast, “INTO THE DEPTHS”, on January 27, 2022, that uncovers the deep history of the transatlantic slave trade as it ...

Research led by the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice is highlighted in two museums in Rio de ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

Moses Dickson, one of the most important but overlooked people in Black history, was born on April 5, 1824, in Cincinnati, Ohio. After he “mastered all branches of study that were taught in that early ...

Slave quilts, Missouri City resident Pam Tilley will say, served many purposes. Stitching the colorful patterns offered an enjoyable time for slaves to socialize at the end of the day. And what they ...

Northerners get much of the credit for pushing to abolish slavery in the United States. But it was an East Tennessean, four decades before the Civil War, who took the extraordinary step of publishing ...