But Illinois, which sent scores of volunteers to fight in the Civil War, is not blameless in the history of slavery.

For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...

Many people believe that slavery in Latin America was a benevolent institution. Several scholars and students think that ...

It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived ... perhaps even expanding further west into the southern Great Lakes ...

For many years, Western Civilization (Western Tradition) has been under assault from the Marxist Left – in schools, colleges, the media, woke corporations, etc. Why? Simply because the foundations of ...

But the dynamic of slavery in the South is not substantially ... at the very least securing the Southern colonies for the Crown, and possibly providing a platform from which the North could ...

Volume 2: Preface Book II. Delineation of the State of Slavery in our Colonies, in its Ordinary Practical Nature and Effects: 1. Reasons for resuming this work 2. Of agricultural labour in the torrid ...

There have been calls from some of Britain’s former colonies for a reckoning over its role in the transatlantic slave trade, including at the recent 27th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ...

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LONDON — A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Britain's leaders will likely face uncomfortable questions about reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade at a summit of nations it once colonized ...