It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...
Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror ...
Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...
Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...
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“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler “In Slavery’s Wake,” a new exhibition ...
The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade runs deep in the roots of Ghana, making it one of the most significant destinations for anyone wishing to trace the footsteps of enslaved ancestors and ...
On the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in ...