One of the most prominent literary critics of Austen, British scholar Marilyn Butler, argued in Jane Austen and the War of ...

Daguerreotype portrait of American abolitionist Frederick Douglass (Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) (1817 – 1895) as a young man, 1848. Formerly enslaved he became the first Black man to be ...

According to one strand of history, slavery was abolished when Europeans found their conscience. According to another, it was ...

Object Details Artist Daniel Orme, 1766 - 1832 Copy after W. Denton Sitter Olaudah Equiano, 1745 - 31 Mar 1797 Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Date 1789 Object number ...

Our panegyric did not extol that and even one of Africa’s earliest voices in world literature Olaudah Equiano confirms what history remembers and what identity demands: Ukwuani is not Igbo.

We need to reckon with what ChatGPT is doing to the classroom and to human expression.

There won’t be new music coming from Dolly Parton in the near future, but listeners can still enjoy her art.

A shipwreck hidden off an iconic Cape Town beach reveals the horrors of the slave trade For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its ...

From Olaudah Equiano, who chronicled the brutality of slavery in the 18th century, to Marcus Garvey, who galvanized movements for Pan-Africanism and Black nationalism in the 19th century, our ...

Legal approach INSPIRATION: Writer and abolitionalist Olaudah Equiano is being used as an example for Jamaica to campaign for slavery reparations.