click image for close-up American illustrator Howard Pyle ... come by way of the Caribbean Islands. In 1655, the first large shipment of slaves directly from Africa arrived at New Amsterdam.

A slave could become free by converting to Christianity. The first Virginia colonists did ... One of the few recorded histories of an African in America that we can glean from early court records ...

The first African Studies Association was founded ... autonomy and sovereignty of the people and polities of Africa and Latin ...

But formal systems of slavery and racial separation did become established in later years as the number of Africans brought over to America began to grow. Were they the first slaves taken to the ...

Getty Images August 2019 marks 400 years since enslaved Africans were first brought ... benefited from the slave trade. "Slavery was an overwhelmingly important fact of the American economy ...

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Whatever idea of civility and morality America wanted to project to ... considered the forebear of narratives on chattel ...

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

People in several states reported they had received racist text messages after Donald Trump won the 2024 election.

Reparations have never been paid to those who were enslaved or their descendants and this is why campaigners’ demands for it ...

In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation ...

America established its own caste system, with Virginia establishing the first slave codes in 1705. These codes quickly ...