Sir Lenny Henry might be famous for his comedy, but there is nothing light-hearted about his latest work. In a new book, The ...

Situational politics led the California governor approved a comprehensive study in 2020, who now resists helping descendants ...

Modern slavery is often described as a hidden crime, but it lives with us, in our families, churches, economies and ...

What would the antebellum American economy have looked like without slavery? Using new micro-data on the U.S. economy in 1860, we document that where free and enslaved workers live and how much they ...

We need a real national museum, not a 1619 museum. But the 1619 Project's fingerprints are all over the Smithsonian's African American museum.

Jane Austen lived under the rule of a slave-trading empire. What did she think about that? And if we could figure out what ...

The Tory historian Nigel Biggar mounts a contradictory defence of empire, while in The Big Payback Lenny Henry and Marcus ...

Leaked text messages from Young Republican leaders reveal a disturbing pattern of racism, antisemitism, misogyny, and violent rhetoric. Hundreds of hateful messages were sent over seven months, with ...

By Rosemary SADLIER, OOnt Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama has described the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as the ...

For four decades Indian Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi rescued thousands of children from the scourge of slavery and trafficking but he fears all his efforts could reverse as the coronavirus ...

The Bank of England should not brush aside links that some of its early governors had with the slave trade, because the central bank still derives influence from its 326-year history, Governor Andrew ...

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