A nearly six-decade-old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the ...

“You have seen how a man was made a slave,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1845 autobiography, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. “You shall see how a slave was made a man.” These words ...

N.W.T. MLAs agreed Wednesday to rename the territorial Great Slave riding to Yellowknife East. The Legislative Assembly's ...

Boz Deseo Garden, whose work explores the “afterlife” of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, is having their Art Basel Paris ...

Isaac Franklin spent part of Christmas Day 1833 assessing his company’s operations and making plans for the future. Writing from New Orleans to one of his business partners in Virginia, Franklin took ...

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 badges identify the wearer's occupation, such as servant or porter. National Museum of African American History and Culture Starting in the late 17th century, enslavers in Charleston, South ...

At the site of one of the world’s most prolific slave ports, a museum designed to “simultaneously hold the sensations of trauma and joy” is set to open next week honoring the many thousands of ...

Since the early modern era, Black and Indigenous slavery has been a recurrent, deeply unsettled subject of humanistic inquiry, across the disciplines of history, philosophy, letters, and the arts.

Illustration by Chris Burnett; photograph from the Library of CongressCredit...Illustration by Chris Burnett; photograph from the Library of Congress By Jamelle Bouie Opinion Columnist The historian ...