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Michael Wood on the ongoing legacy of slavery
"Slavery’s effects are still working themselves out in our lives today"
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The shoemaker who helped slaves escape the South
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Recaptive Number 11,407
Piecing together the life of a freed slave
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The children who fought for the abolition of slavery
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The Servile Wars: Spartacus & the rebellions that threatened the Roman Republic
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How women helped sustain the slave trade
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Caroline Dodds Pennock
“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”
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Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of “Ashley’s sack”
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Slavery's painful legacy
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The slave who stole a ship and sailed to freedom
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Hakim Adi
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history
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How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail
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