Black history

A c1870 engraving of diamond miners in Brazil in c1800. Despite abolitionists' best efforts, British companies used slaves in their South American mines until the 1880s. (Getty Images)

Britain’s slaves in Latin America

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Second World War

Latin American slavery and historical hair

A re-enactment of the American Civil War. The conflict looms large in the US psyche 150 years after if began. (Getty Images)

Civil rights and the Civil War

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Second World War

Mother Country: Britain’s Black Community on the Home Front 1939–1945

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Slavery: Antiquity and its Legacy

New US citizens celebrate after taking the oath at a US District Court for the Central District of California naturalisation ceremony, 2007. (Photo by Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Simon Schama on American history

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King: A drum major for justice