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

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...

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Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 didn’t just free 800,000 enslaved people — it set the precedent for global emancipation.

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

Since 2020 our team has been investigating the links between the RA and its colonial past. Research into the Royal Academy of ...