More than two centuries ago, an enslaved man named Gabriel was making final preparations to lead a revolt in Richmond that he hoped would spur the end of slavery. He was smart, he was armed and he was ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...

There is no telling what you will find searching through old Carroll County records. Recently the name Bernard M. Campbell popped up in books dating to the 1850s and early 1860s. Following Campbell’s ...

After Madam Efurunoye Tinubu made a fortune from selling slaves she made a u-turn to stop the selling of humans. Sadly, she lost two sons to malaria while in Badagry — a famed slave port in Nigeria ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a neighbor’s pastureland. The Uniontown newspaper carried reports on ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...

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