This article examines the phenomenon of New World-based slave trading, which encompasses slave-trading voyages that embarked from ports in the Americas. Much of the existing literature takes a ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was known as "white gold" because of how valuable it was. By the 17th century, ...

A nearly six-decade-old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the ...

“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 ...

LONDON -- For someone who died nearly three centuries ago, Edward Colston has become a symbol for the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain. The toppling of his statue in Bristol, a city in the ...

WHENEVER the topic of slavery is raised, it is usually the Trans-Atlantic trade, yet it is only a fragment of a much longer story of human bondage and suffering. There are also popular misconceptions ...

Acknowledge the past. Repair the present. Build a future of dignity and justice. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, ...

Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute, and lecturer in Art History, Williams College The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an ...

I see memorialization as the physical manifestation of our collective experience, memory and history. Our engagement with these spaces allows us to simultaneously reach back into the past and project ...