The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it.

Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that ...

When it came to Britain's pioneering efforts to abolish slavery, in the early 19th Century, research by historian Prof Suzanne Schwarz found the Royal Family itself was divided. The nephew of ...

Important studies like Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa and Black Americans and the Evangelization of ...

"Trace/s: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn" at the Center for Brooklyn History grapples with the ...

Gardner, of Alna, will discuss her upcoming book, 'The Divided North: Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery.' ...

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

This project aims at examining the circulation and the implementation of a common post-slavery pattern as the key and masterpiece which has enabled the pervasiveness of the socio-racial inequalities ...

Harvard University abruptly terminated staff contributing to the research component of its Slavery Remembrance Program on Jan ...

Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery,” which traces two Maine families, one Black and one white, as they navigate the turbulent 19th century.