With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Therefore, as a first step and a first contribution, this research project is based on a new and crucial comparative perspective including Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Southern United ...

Although Jefferson's description of the slave trade was as much an indictment of the colonies as of Britain ... both northern and southern slaveholding delegates objected to its inclusion, and ...

This new law posed the greatest obstacle yet to Boston’s abolition movement, pitting it against emboldened slave owners and the federal government. The West End Museum’s new special exhibit, “An ...