Suleyman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century. The Empire enslaved millions of people - Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Having spent the ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler “In Slavery’s Wake,” a new exhibition ...

But to understand slavery from that era – or to combat slavery today – we also need to understand the longer history of involuntary labor. As a scholar of ancient slavery and early Christian history, ...

Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...

Pretty much every human society from ancient to modern times has had some form of involuntary servitude, and a William & Mary professor has set out to compare and contrast them. Jessica Stephens, ...

While scarcely an unknown story, the history of slavery in the Islam­ic world is one that has been shadowed by the focus on its Atlan­tic counterpart. Marozzi’s well-written book is greatly to be ...

W hat does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence. But what counts as evidence, and who has the authority to make those determinations? In part because ...

A National Museum of African American History and Culture Exhibition frames the history of slavery in a global context Abigail Pocasangre & Julia Ross Artist Daniel Minter created this installation ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the ...

As Labor Day approaches, we should reflect not just on the holiday’s own important history, but also on the much longer fight ...