Slavery

St Catharine's College, Cambridge has already removed a bell from view after concluding it came from a slave plantation. (Image by Alamy)

Anna Whitelock Confronting slavery’s legacy

Harriet Tubman. (Getty Images)

Harriet Tubman and the ‘Underground Railroad’

The bronze statue in Washington DC celebrating Abraham Lincoln's emancipation of slaves shows the 16th president standing over a shackled African American. Lincoln is "one of the towering figures in the story that Americans tell about themselves," writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Lincoln and slavery: “If I could save the union without freeing any slave, I would”

The coastal city of Port Antonio. (Image by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Jamaica

Lemuel F Abbott's famous 1797 portrait of Horatio Nelson. In 1805, the British naval hero promised to speak publicly against the abolition of slavery, but was denied the opportunity by his death at Trafalgar later that year. (Picture by Alamy)

The Library Lord Nelson and slavery: Nelson’s dark side

Rags and riches: Enslaved people wash diamonds in Brazil, guarded by armed overseers, in a German engraving of 1828. Diamonds were discovered in Minas Gerais state in the late 17th century. (Picture by Alamy)

Brazil: a society shaped by slavery

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Michael Wood on… slavery

View of Algiers with mediterranean galleys, published in Johannes van Keulen's Dutch Atlas, 1709. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The Library When Britons were slaves in Africa

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Crusade logistics and the battle over the slave trade

An 1826 illustration from 'The Black Man's Lament

The Library Britain: a nation of slave owners

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Historian at the Movies: Belle reviewed

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Historian at the Movies: 12 Years a Slave reviewed

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Interactive map ‘contradicts slave uprising theories’

18th-century slave uprising

The Uganda railway, which links Uganda and Kenya with the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in Kenya, was built during the period of British control of East Africa. (SSPL/Getty Images)

The dark side of abolitionism