At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for research for her book, Reparations to Africa (2008) from which some of this article is ...

In Unbroken Chains: a 5000 year history of African enslavement (Hurst, 2025) former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides a much-needed survey of slavery in Africa. He reveals to the general ...

Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute, and lecturer in Art History, Williams College The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an ...