Tag: Slavery

Slavery still exists in America, but the only people whose labor can be enslaved are those convicted of a crime.

The escape of ordinary Black women is essential to understanding how women built a culture and a politics of resistance ...

As the U.S. debates reparations for descendants of U.S. slavery, looking to Africa might help clear a path forward.

A Baylor University report recommends changing building names honoring former enslavers.

A group of scholars want the Atlantic seabed to be internationally recognized as a memorial site for the transatlantic slave ...

Considering the history of women and Black enslavement shows that a shared narrative of oppression and protest can incite unity ...

As a former social studies teacher, I have no shortage of ideas on how educators can do a better job ...

There are at least two primary reasons for the absence of Native Americans in the historiography of the Underground Railroad. 

While there has been much praise for the project’s recasting of American history, it has been given a chilly reception ...

Lecrae and Thi'sl, both Christians, shared information and documents about their enslaved ancestors in a sobering online discussion.

New Barna research reveals how generational, racial, and political leanings impact Christians' views on injustices tied to America's history of ...

Slaveholders in the Caribbean encouraged complex social hierarchies on the plantations that amounted to something like a system of "class."

Archer Alexander reportedly was the person used as the model for the “Freedman’s Memorial” statue in Washington D.C. But Alexander ...

Scholars of American slavery have increasingly looked at bondage in other slave societies as a way to better understand their ...

For Frederick Douglass, reading ignited a fire within, broadened his horizons, strengthened his sense of self and his determination to ...

Although June 19 marks one of the most important events in American history—the conclusion of two and a half centuries ...