The book is based on two decades of research into abolition, universal freedom and justice. In it, I explore the role played ...

An upcoming exhibit of artifacts aims to juxtapose stories about the pursuit of freedom in the American Revolution with those ...

A task force of lawmakers and historians is recommending that Illinois create a full-time commission to commemorate the ...

Researchers analysed a range of 18th and 19th century pieces of evidence which looked into eight ... s universities have a variety of historic connections to the transatlantic slave economy including ...

We would have been swarmed under the red-coated army of the 18th century superpower and crushed. Holding hands with our neighbors kept America from being smothered in its cradle. The concept is our ...

Nathan Gorelick traces literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The largest and longest-lasting society formed by people who escaped slavery and their descendants endured for a century in ...

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