This Is Us star Sterling K Brown returns to our screens tonight in Washington Black - a Disney+ drama featuring a Miranda star who fans may struggle to recognise ...

A statue of anti-slavery campaigner Mary Ann McCracken at the front of Belfast City Hall has been damaged in a suspected act of vandalism. The Irish language section of the four plaques at the base of ...

Forbes Magazine, regularly in more than the last decade, has named Texas one of the “best places to start a business.” Such ...

The origins of the Imperial Sugar Company began when Nathaniel Williams established the Oakdale Plantation just southwest of Houston in 1843. Oakdale was a self-sufficient and diversified operation, ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Historians, academics, economists and researchers agree the economy many Americans enjoy today was set up on a foundation of hundreds of years of free labor.

Video of the Nottoway Plantation fire sparks jubilation. It’s about anger and pain over slavery, too Preservationists say the jubilant reactions to the charred mansion reflect the trauma and ...

Nottoway plantation just burned down, so we decided to look into its history and other plantations where the most brutal chattel slavery occurred.

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

How ‘Blackbirders’ Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War The decline of the American South’s cotton and sugar industries paved the way for ...

In May 2024, the British Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch claimed that Britain was enriched by national “ingenuity and industry” rather than by colonialism and trans ...