This project aims at examining the circulation and the implementation of a common post-slavery pattern as the key and masterpiece which has enabled the pervasiveness of the socio-racial inequalities ...

Preachers were key organizers of the nineteenth century's major slave conspiracies, those of Gabriel Prosser (1800), Denmark Vesey (1822), and the religious exhorter Nat Turner (1831 ...

If such a line as “Mason-Dixon” existed (actually, there were a series of lines drawn by “compromising” Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided ...

The continuation of slavery within Africa in the 19th century after abolition is also poorly documented. Historical documents containing statistics are not always very reliable. For example ...

Slaves helped build the wall from which Wall Street was named Later in the 19th Century, US banks and southern states would sell securities that helped fund the expansion of slave run plantations.

Settlers from the South wanted to move to the West and take their enslaved workers with them Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery As new states were created, the issue of slavery ...

Merjen Atayeva, Iranian Studies 'Unfree labor powered pastoral economies and agricultural societies in eighteenth - and nineteenth-century Central Asia. Historians have noted the presence of slaves in ...

The story of an enslaved American woman who visited an English village in the 19th Century has resurfaced ... In her 1861 book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Ms Jacobs describes her ...

eBay has launched an investigation into the sale of documents linked to transatlantic slavery on its website after concerns were raised about it profiting from the items. The bidding website ...

Helena Monteiro da Costa's father was brought from Angola to Brazil as an enslaved person in the 19th century. Next year the ...