The Williamsburg area has plenty of events planned to celebrate and commemorate Juneteenth, starting this weekend.

That Native Americans did not make very good slaves made little difference in the commerce of slavery in early colonial ...

Their story marks an important historical transition, as the North American colonies began to turn away from indentured servitude and instead rely on chattel slavery. (See also: It was America's ...

Slaves of the Empire, directed by Kochi native Rajesh James, clinched the Best Documentary Award at the 27th UK Asian Film ...

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...

A delegation of African Americans from the Teaching Artist Institute (TAI), based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, joined by ...

Leiden’s city government is preparing to formally apologize for the city’s role in colonialism and the slave trade, AD ...

Revolts evolved alongside slavery. The first known slave rebellion in one of England’s American colonies took place in Gloucester County, Virginia in 1663, 44 years after the first slaves ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

Furious parents said the “profoundly offensive” incident marginalised children of colour, whitewashed Britain’s colonial past ...

Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

Minister Judith Uitermark of Home Affairs recognises the importance of making July 1 a national day to commemorate the abolition of slavery. She says that the Commemoration Committee for Slavery Past ...