Britain’s Prime Minister rose to address a packed House on the subject of Atlantic slavery. He was not a man to put his ...

In 1860, an illegal bet brought the last known captive Africans to U.S. shores aboard Clotilda. Their story is one of tragedy and resilience. Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship ...

“You have seen how a man was made a slave,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1845 autobiography, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. “You shall see how a slave was made a man.” These words ...

The place where the clearance sale took place is now a drab industrial area on the west side of Savannah, Georgia, hemmed in by railroad tracks and an interstate freeway. But over two days in March ...

Boz Deseo Garden, whose work explores the “afterlife” of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, is having their Art Basel Paris debut.

The transatlantic slave trade is a painful part of world history. It represents one of the largest forced migrations, displacing 12.5 million Africans from their homelands. The trade was also ...

Isaac Franklin spent part of Christmas Day 1833 assessing his company’s operations and making plans for the future. Writing from New Orleans to one of his business partners in Virginia, Franklin took ...

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 169 years ago.

The badges identify the wearer's occupation, such as servant or porter. National Museum of African American History and Culture Starting in the late 17th century, enslavers in Charleston, South ...

The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...