"A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — As the campaign to quash the teachings of America’s brutal history of slavery intensifies, Joseph McGill Jr. has waged a counterattack by way of a poignant three-day conference in ...

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, ...

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 ...

Coalition of descendant-led groups aims to preserve Black history amid debate over slavery’s place in America’s story A ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Demonstrators gather to protest removal of explanatory panels that were part of an exhibit on slavery at the President's House ...

For almost two decades, Mass Humanities has supported organizations looking to bring people together to read a famous Frederick Douglass speech called “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” This year ...