Without minimising Europe’s shameful role, this chilling book exposes the extent of the historic slave trade within Africa ...

A vivid and chilling account of the deadly voyage that triggered the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade Over the nearly four centuries during which the transatlantic slave trade operated, 12.5 ...

Sometimes the slightest crack in an otherwise solid foundation can trigger the wholesale collapse of an edifice. Such was the ...

As Siddharth Kara relates in this harrowing but fascinating book, “the Zorg’s trans-Atlantic crossing plumbed the depths of ...

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Professor challenges modern American history curriculum in new book, arguing educators present Western culture negatively ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas, “filled with Biblical and historical images, with many ...

A new Ken Burns documentary highlights Rhode Island's significant contributions to the American Revolution. Key figures like ...

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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World ...