Slaves and Indians
Europeans did not introduce slavery to North America – although they did change the way it was practised.
Slavery & Abolition
Beyond Profit
The Dutch role in the slave trade cannot be dismissed as a matter of numbers.
Lubaina Himid: Naming the Un-Named
Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid’s artworks fill in the gaps that history leaves behind.
Kroomen: Black Slaver Hunters
Fiercely independent, highly skilled sailors, the Kroomen of Sierra Leone forged an alliance with the Royal Navy to rid the African coasts of slavers.
Slavery, Women’s Suffrage and the American Civil War
As calls for women’s suffrage gained momentum following the Civil War, an uncomfortable racial faultline emerged dividing white suffragists from their African-American sisters.
Runaway Reading
How did literacy encourage slave rebelliousness after the American War of Independence?
A Society Built On Slavery
The extent to which Britons were involved in slave-ownership has been laid bare by a project based at University College London. Katie Donington shows how one family profited.
James Ramsay and the Slave Trade
After years of service in the West Indies, writes Ian Bradley, Ramsay in England helped to inspire the crusade for Abolition.
Anti-Slavery and the American Revolution
Richard K. MacMaster examines the 'crack in the Liberty Bell'.
The Ku Klux Klan
The ‘invisible empire’ of the Klan, writes Louis C. Kleber, was the answering organization in the Southern states to the Radical regimes imposed by the victorious North.