A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Slave smugglers increased their profits ... But, in the course of my research, I've found evidence of broad patterns of resistance. In the same region, other Africans had successfully escaped ...

Slave smugglers increased their profits ... But, in the course of my research, I’ve found evidence of broad patterns of resistance. In the same region, other Africans had successfully escaped ...

Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...

In an era where attempts to sanitize history threaten to erase these crucial stories, preserving and sharing slave narratives becomes an act of resistance itself. The significance of slave ...

African people were far from passive and they offered fierce resistance to being captured and sold into a life of slavery. There are several notable cases where enslaved Africans tried to take ...

Although slavery is an ancient practice it has had its critics long before the 18th century. In West Africa there were a number of people who kept out of the slave trade, refusing to negotiate ...

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