Last year protestors disrupted the German festival Oktoberfest in St. Charles County to bring attention to issues of social justice and the acquittal of former police officer Jason Stokely for the ...

Steve Cushion, author of Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World, spoke to Pat Meusel about his ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

As early as 1688, four German Quakers in Germantown near Philadelphia protested slavery in a resolution that condemned the "traffic of Men-body." By the 1770s, abolitionism was a full-scale movement ...

On 23rd of August each year, the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is recognised and celebrated. In light of this significant day, we will be acknowledging ...

(WHTM) Pennsylvania had slaves before Pennsylvania was even Pennsylvania. Dutch and Swedish settlers in the Delaware Valley held Africans as slaves. When William Penn and the Society of Friends ...

When we think about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, we often center the Black American narrative (i.e. – Black American Exceptionalism). The United States is not in and of itself exceptional, but Black ...

ELMINA, Ghana (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Africans marked the anniversary on Sunday with a sombre ceremony recalling the suffering of their ancestors ...