African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

An overview of how Bermuda’s early colonial government drew up the legislative basis for enslavement on the island has been ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to bring it to light.

Abraham Lincoln’s firm resolve during his last days demonstrated his enduring commitment to the common good', A CT historian writes.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous book under the title Why We Can’t Wait.  Besides addressing the crime of slavery ...

However, in terms of prevalence, forced labour is most common in the Arab States ... of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations ...

The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...