It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous ...

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

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

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

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

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 ...

Examinations of history, and in this case specifically American history, often set a foundation for interpreting the modern world. The retracing of crucial steps, the people responsible for ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Florida Board of Education on July 19 voted in favor of new academic standards for Black history classes in public schools, approving a set of course guidelines that the NAACP is calling an ...