This video uses Olaudah Equiano’s firsthand description of the slave ship to show what the Middle Passage felt like in human terms, then pairs it with period documents that make the system impossible ...

The exhibit uses a widely circulated 18th century illustration, “Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brooks Under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1778,” which documented the brutal packing of enslaved ...

Sherry Lynn Blackwell, a Las Vegas-based artist, turned her living room into a makeshift museum of her family history. As jazz music from a distant relative played, she went back to the very beginning ...

“I am the great, great, great, great granddaughter of Ama,” Blackwell said. “Ama and Tab were stolen from their native land in the great Ghana, Mali and Songhai empires of West Africa. They were among ...

In this adapted excerpt from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met ...

Reviewed by Hilary Jones in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 60 (2) 2019, pages 336-338 (DT1.J858 AFA). Recaptives of a slaveholding republic -- Proslavery waters -- Suffering and ...

SpaceX has delivered a new animated look at the launch of Starship to Mars. See the launch, Super Heavy booster re-entry and 'chopsticks' capture, on-orbit fueling and journey to the surface of the ...

Brooke N. Newman - Author, The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas In 1823, 17 enslaved people were sold at an auction in Barbados in the name of ...

Darth Maul wasn't the only character too beloved to stay down for good. These good (and bad) guys were all so popular they ...

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit. More than 12 million Africans were enslaved during the ...

The revolutionary ideals of liberty spread across the colonies while many suffer from enslavement. Committees of Correspondence form in hundreds of Massachusetts towns linking advocates of resistance ...

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