International Day for the Abolition of Slavery recalls the date of the adoption of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of Others ...

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

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

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

John Ganson died in 1874 and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo. His obituary stated that “He was a War Democrat, ...

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

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

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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 ...

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

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum announces its fifth year of Black History Matters with the 2025 theme of ...