Over the next eight years, John Armfield in ... much of Africa to supply the slaves, and both North and South America and the West Indies as markets for the enslaved blacks had begun in the ...

Taken by Portuguese slave ... North America as part of their colonization efforts in Florida and the Carolinas. By 1620, close to 520,000 captured and enslaved African men, women, and children had ...

Petaluma witnessed significant events including Theodore Roosevelt's third-party formation, the first woman voting in Sonoma ...

Maura Finkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of academic freedom are no longer ...

At a three-day conference, African theologians and scholars considered how colonizing countries can make amends for ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

Ecuador’s government issued a public apology on Saturday to a group of plantation workers who were subjected to slave-like ...

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to ...

Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution ...

When Edward Said published his book Orientalism in 1978, his insights shattered previous notions of East-West relations and ...

The American Civil War ended 160 years ago with the Union victorious and slavery abolished. But many Bristolians supported ...