JMW Turner vented his anger on to canvas: his 1840 work Slave Ship: Slavers throwing overboard the dead and the dying, ...

A former slave’s attempt to lead a rebellion in Charleston during the summer of 1822 would forever alter life in the ...

The Tory historian Nigel Biggar mounts a contradictory defence of empire, while in The Big Payback Lenny Henry and Marcus ...

In the powerful new history “The Zorg,” Siddharth Kara tells a shocking story of mass killing, human baseness and the seeds ...

Meadow Dibble has spent years researching and recovering historical data that she believes links Brewster to the slave trade.

The Battle of Hampton was small as battles go, but it involved big issues, such as the status of enslaved workers in Virginia.

A tearful Kim Kardashian begs Kanye West to stop “burning bridges” in the entertainment and fashion industries in the new documentary, In Whose Name?, which was released on Friday, September 19. “I ...

SpaceX has a reputation for coming up with clever, catchy names for its seafaring vessels and spacecraft. Here's a look at a ...

Chattel slavery was bad in 1619 when the first slave ship from Africa arrived in Virginia. In 2025 it still is. Lerone Bennett introduces that terrible commerce in his book Before the Mayflower, A ...

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition poster, card, August 23. Vector illustration. The Transatlantic Slave Trade is not just Black history—it is American history, ...

On Tuesday, President Trump attacked the narrative long taught in US schools and documented in museums, about the abhorrent, centuries-long practice of slavery. He focused on The Smithsonian ...