Slavery wasn’t limited to the American South. In the late 1730s, a young boy in Guinea was kidnapped and taken on a slave ship to New England. He grew up as an enslaved person but went on to buy his ...

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Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

Packed with maritime and colonial history, Maryland’s capital city of Annapolis also offers tons of ways to get out on the ...

A slave who once couldn’t afford the $800 price to secure his family’s freedom, Robert Smalls went on to buy his former slave owner’s home after he risked everything to escape slavery.

Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in ...

From historic artefacts and contemporary art to interactive exhibitions, London’s best museums have something for every ...

Juneteenth, celebrated every year on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were ...

They were packed like cargo onto the slave ship the Morovia (or the York; accounts vary). Their fate was excruciatingly obvious, and the only answer was a rebellion.

Netflix added a full slate of Alfred Hitchcock movies to its library in June, including “Vertigo,” “Rear Window,” and “The ...

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...