Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Manisha Sinha Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers ...

Film links 19th century slavery to contemporary bondage Mark Curnutte, The Cincinnati Enquirer "Journey to Freedom" has been shown at 10 U.S. embassies around the world ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Adam Smith aside, globalization of the 19th century was in no way predicated on the existence of the slavery. Even the most cursory knowledge of the 19th century dispels the link between the two.

There he was resold, and there, on a cotton slave labor camp called Congaree, he encountered the new kind of slavery that was emerging on the frontiers of the early-19th-century South.

Now 16 scholars are helping to set the record straight by exploring the true ties between 19th century economic development and a brutal system of human bondage in the 2016 book Slavery’s ...

Harvard University is being sued for “shamelessly” making a profit from photos of two 19th-century slaves despite the requests to turn the photographs over to the slaves' descendants.

"The history of slavery in Erie and in this country needs to be known. I can't even imagine why people would want to hide the truth, as it's been hidden for 400 or 500 years — the truth about ...

The Scandalous Story Behind the Provocative 19th-Century Sculpture “Greek Slave” Artist Hiram Powers earned fame and fortune for his beguiling sculpture, but how he crafted it might have ...

The "Circle of Chains" memorial by Steven Whyte, powerfully honors the enslaved individuals who contributed to the state's ...

By the early 19th century, slavery appeared to be mostly on its way out. The British Empire and the United States had both abolished the African slave trade in 1808.