Iron shackles found at Ghozza suggest at least some gold miners during Egypt's Ptolemaic period were slaves
A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education13d
How the Study of Slavery Has Shaped the Academy
A free account provides you access to a limited number of free articles each month, plus newsletters, job postings, salary ...
Ex-slave, architect, Confederacy supporter: The 'remarkable' Alabama legacy of Horace King
The state Capitol stairs serve as a stark example of complicated work performed by a complicated man, who lived a remarkable ...
The incredible journey of two princes from Mozambique whose lives were upended by the slave trade
Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into ...
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New book makes the case that studying slavery akin to studying the history of America
Author Scott Spillman joins Morning Joe to discuss his book 'Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the ...
ExplorersWeb on MSN2d
Why Feral Camels Once Haunted the American Southwest
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, camels wandered the Sonoran Desert. How they got there, and what happened to ...
The New Yorker21d
Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.
Resurrecting the forgotten history of the first enslaved Africans in America
Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...
Barbados Cotton: The Government’s Labor Call Amid Slavery’s Lingering Threads
A Facebook post from March 7 revealed that the account for the official government of Barbados put out the call to action. “Unemployed persons or those looking to earn extra income are invited to ...
What Black history has to do with the Cretaceous period
Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette17d
Project finds slavery-era ruling still cited
Most of the slavery precedents concern how property rights were protected by the U.S. Constitution, which was written by wealthy property owners in an era when much of the young nation's economy ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs21d
Hamas’s hostage releases are modern-day slave auctions - opinion
circa 1830: An auction of enslaved people in America. (credit: RISCHGITZ/GETTY IMAGES) There are many parallels between America’s slave era and these horrifying Hamas happenings. The most ...