Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell opens her lecture on the early development of slavery in the northern American colonies with a ...

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery. Traditions EndurePainted in the late ...

Brown Confronts Slavery, Second in a series. Though the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice was expected to submit its report to President Ruth Simmons this spring, it is unclear when ...

Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward ...

Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Fitch in Peabody Essex Museum’s American art galleries (all photos courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum) As society critically assesses history through the lens of ...

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WROC) — A worksheet used in a Pittsford fourth grade class lesson on slavery during colonial times was “highly insensitive in tone” according to Pittsford Central School District ...

A slavery and colonial trail is to be launched in Glasgow next year. The trail aims to ensure the city's role in the slave trade continues to be "acknowledged, understood and remembered", according to ...