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Slavery

A painting of Lisbon depicts conspicuous displays of Portuguese imperial wealth and power – including enslaved African people
Medieval

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

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Kris Manjapra “Black communities have had to pay for the failures of emancipation”

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Victorian

Escaping slavery in the American South

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Georgian

The Demerara slave uprising 

An illustration shows a sailor throwing an enslaved person into the sea, with other enslaved people below drowning
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The Zong Massacre: what the dark episode meant for the British slave trade and abolition

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Victorian

How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology

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Georgian

Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded

Roman

Q&A Could Roman slaves buy their own freedom?

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Slavery in ancient Rome: how important were enslaved people to Roman society?

An illustration of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865
Victorian

Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire

A modern illustration shows prisoners of war being sold into slavery
Ancient Greece

Slavery in ancient Greece: what was life like for enslaved people?

Teachers Richard Kennett and Tom Allen discuss how they have worked with six other teachers to create a new textbook on Bristol and the transatlantic slave trade. (Image by Getty Images)
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How should we teach the slave trade?

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Emma Dabiri "William Cuffay's story is more relevant now than ever"

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Georgian

George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch

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