Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

Carissa J. Chen ’21 talks to Fifteen Minutes about Harvard's legacy of slavery, pursuing a Ph.D., and creative writing ...

Corporations are ‘legal persons’ under the law. But their ability to be ‘owned’ by shareholders embeds a system of ...

In new novel Zeal, Morgan Jerkins reclaims the narratives of enslaved women, portraying them not just as victims of history, ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

Few nations have apologized for their role in slavery, and reparations have been the subject of ... estates with enslaved ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

Judges also described Rafael's actions as 'reprehensible' for subjecting his mother's life 'to a veritable hell', claiming he made her a 'prisoner' in her own home and subjected her to his 'whims ...

What Flanagan understands is that the real story of America includes the story of slavery. He looked around at all the people ...

We often associate slavery with non-Christians and the Romans, but unfree people continued to be owned and exploited throughout Europe for hundreds of years after the fall of the Empire.