Making Black Freedom in the World” uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the struggle for justice.

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

In 1685, a law in the Cape Colony forbade marriage between Europeans ... supposed losses in the emancipation for their Hottentot slaves, and determined to erect themselves into a republic, in ...

In 1685, a law in the Cape Colony forbade marriage between Europeans ... supposed losses in the emancipation for their Hottentot slaves, and determined to erect themselves into a republic, in ...

The colonial elite realized the problems of indentured servitude. Landowners turned to African slaves as a more profitable and ever-renewable source of labor and the shift from indentured servants ...

Instead, Portugal's colonial era, during which countries including Angola, Mozambique, Brazil, Cape Verde and East Timor ... other amends for transatlantic slavery has been gaining momentum ...