Category : International

CARIBBEAN CONNECTIONS AND SLAVERY Ninian Home (1732-1795) was a cousin of Patrick Home, who built Paxton House. As a junior member of the family, Ninian...

Thanks to the 1619 Project, it is widely believed the first enslaved Africans arrived in North America, at the British colony of Jamestown that year....

Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, was the act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans...

If the term seems familiar from art and literature—but still confusing—there’s a good reason. If the term “Moor” seems familiar but confusing, there’s a reason:...

Hearing arguments in the case of the Zong, a slave ship, the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in London states that a massacre of...

The history of this slave ship has gone almost entirely unnoticed until now. This is remarkable given that its final voyage ended in the single...

In August 1781, a British slave ship, the Zong, left Ghana with 442 slaves aboard – twice the number it was designed to carry –...

This is the full text of Enoch Powell’s so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, which was delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April...

The Sans-Souci Palace was built to serve as a residence for the revolutionary leader Henri Christophe, who would become king in 1811, a year into...

Haitian Revolution, series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804 between Haitian slaves, colonists, the armies of the British and French colonizers, and a number of...