"This volume is a supplement to Parliamentary history, vol. 26 (2007)"--Title page verso. NMAF copy 39088019788892 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. Parliament and the escalation of the ...

The end of slavery was not solely brought about by the Civil War in the U.S., but also by centuries of resistance across the ...

ELMINA, Ghana (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Africans marked the anniversary on Sunday with a sombre ceremony recalling the suffering of their ancestors ...

For example, George Byng, one such person that the National Gallery conducted research on, was the former owner of a painting that was subsequently purchased by the museum and the owner by marriage of ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas, “filled with Biblical and historical images, with many ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

NEW YORK-- New York City is joining communities around the world in recognizing International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition. Several municipal buildings, including City ...

On Wednesday, August 23, 2023, the Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Arts of Benin, Jean-Michel Abimbola, launched events in Ouidah at the House of Brazil. These events mark the celebration of the ...

When the United Kingdom abolished slavery in 1833, the government of the day paid out £20m in compensation -- not to slaves, but to their owners. What happened next to that money has been tracked by a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Britain abolished the slave trade, it is home to thousands of men, women and children who have been tricked, coerced or intimidated into prostitution or ...