Getty Images The US sugar industry was reliant on slave labour in the early 19th century. America's railroads also benefited from money earned through slave businesses. In the south, trains were ...

Robert Shaplen’s “Free Love” delves into the adultery case against Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher and a presidential hopeful.

Between 1750 and 1830 Friends pioneered American reform movements on slavery, temperance ... men’s and other women’s meetings. Eighteenth-century Quaker women exercised more responsibility ...

eBay has launched an investigation into the sale of documents linked to transatlantic slavery on its website ... being sold in the United States of America in 1827. The advert read: “Lengthy ...

Imagine flying, impossibly, over the Earth in the 17th century—during the time described in American history ... colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th century, almost four ...

While Obama - whose father is Kenyan and mother was American - was first running ... showing his ancestors owned at least two slaves in the 19th century, and that his wife Amy's family also ...

Most of us know that before the American Civil War there were so ... Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided below it and free black people above ...

Few people are aware of how one of America’s most respected philosophers ... “a passion for the violent solution to slavery was sweeping the abolitionist citizens of the nation,” as ...

A British heritage organisation has launched a project to tell the forgotten story of 19th century Black American abolitionists who raised their voices against racism and slavery. The Missing ...

Veteran actor Tony Todd, famous for *Candyman* and *Star Trek*, has died at 69, leaving a legacy of powerful roles across ...

More than 12.5m Africans were traded between 1515 and the mid-19th Century ... of enslaved African women by slave owners and other sexual exploitation". In Latin America, up to 17 African women ...

The Missing Pieces Project, launched by Historic England, uncovers the overlooked narratives of 19th-century Black American abolitionists who campaigned against racism and slavery across Britain and ...