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The life-sized bronze memorial honors the lives of slaves and is located steps from the DeWolf warehouse, where slave ships departed.
The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to remove any books from its museums or gift shops that cast America in a negative light. That could include stories about slavery.
A prominent gravestone of a family involved in the slave trade has been defaced with red crosses. The cross has been painted ...
The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition will be remembered at events in Hull this weekend. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Cheryl Payne, will attend a commemoration on Saturday in ...
History presents the Whydah Gally's crew as swashbuckling sailors who looted a fortune before perishing in a storm. But ...
The Trump administration has given a Sept. 17 deadline for federal agencies to remove materials that highlight the darker parts of American history.
Introduction / Kristin Mann and Philip Misevich -- Slavery and the slave trade -- Consuming goods, consuming people : reflections on the transatlantic slave trade / David Richardson -- Caribbean ...
While public memorials of New Orleans’ prominent role in the slave trade have been mostly understated or non-existent, cities ...
Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade -- Black Markets for Black Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1619-1720 -- ...
Two hundred Texans itching for a fight answered the call of Gen. William Walker and sailed for Nicaragua on Sept. 17, 1856.