The standard belief is that slavery was about obtaining “cheap labor,“ yet nothing could be further from the truth. Slavery ...

Early on in the 1500s, Spain and Portugal had begun trading in slaves, but England saw the potential economic opportunities, and quickly established sugar and cotton plantations in the colonies. Use ...

The transatlantic slave trade, spanning four centuries, generated immense wealth for Western nations and played a critical role in the accumulation of capital, reflecting the brutal reality of a ...

On a spring morning nearly a decade ago, Leigh Magar was out walking rural Johns Island, off Charleston, S.C., with her ...

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Ph.D. candidate Elysia Petras and archaeologist Dr. Brandi MacDonald recently discovered 15 shards of Afro-Caribbean pottery ...

Published as Capitalism and Slavery in the US, at a time when apartheid was still enforced there and in South Africa, it has ...

The United States was once home to more than 46,000 plantations. Today, many properties remain across the American South.

Britain abolished slavery in the 1830s ... or coerced into boats and brought to Queensland to work on sugar and cotton plantations. "In the 1860s, Queensland emerged as a sugar belt with labour ...

There’s a traditional narrative about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were entirely shut out of the legal system, disenfranchised and bereft of even a modicum of ...

“A lot of research [has looked] at descendants of enslaved people and less so at the people who benefited from slavery,” Sehgal says. Research published in 2020 by Robert Reece, a sociologist ...