Slavery

Confronting evils.

Confronting evils

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Olivette Otele: UK’s first female black history professor to research Bristol’s links to slave trade

Harriet Tubman (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell

The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)

Slave revolt

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

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

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

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)

When Britons were slaves in Africa

Q&A: Could Roman slaves buy their own freedom?

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Crusade logistics and the battle over the slave trade

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Historian at the Movies: Belle reviewed

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Q&A Who was the 'Black Terror'?

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Historian at the Movies: 12 Years a Slave reviewed