These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

Though Juneteenth commemorates a moment when enslaved African Americans were freed, the US is still held captive by several myths about slavery.

I feel like everyone should already know this, but, now seems like a great time to remind people, for the umpteenth time, that plantation weddings are wrong!This piece from The Guardian from 2019 ...

There are also plenty of shows that go to great lengths to capture the true essence of a time period, from classics like Downton Abbey to The Crown. Below, we rounded up the top 20 period dramas ...

Starring a three-time Oscar winner as the protagonist, the Steven Spielberg directorial is considered to be a 'masterpiece' ...

As America approaches its 249th birthday, many scholars, writers, and ordinary Americans are prompted to review the nation’s ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as ...

Two years after national apologies for slavery were made by the king and prime minister, campaigners and politicians at a ...

How Slavery Helped Build a World Economy. The slavery system in the United States was a national system that touched the very core of its economic and political life.

Below, we rounded up the top 20 period dramas in film and TV of all time. Emma (2020) In her feature-film directorial debut, Autumn de Wilde offers a fresh and stylised take on Jane Austen’s 1815 ...

The Charleston peninsula's three historically Black Episcopal churches, St. Mark's, St. Stephen's and Calvary, lamented together the church's role in slavery.