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Hakim Adi “There’s still this hangover that everything has to be seen through the prism of enslavement”

Around 200,000 freed slaves, like this soldier, joined the Union military in the Civil Wa

The Emancipation Proclamation Your guide to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation

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African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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St Hadrian of Canterbury Medieval African theologian . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South

A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

BBC at 100 Mirroring Multicultural Britain

Juneteenth celebrations, also known as Emancipation Day, in Texas, 1900

Juneteenth: what is it, historians on its relevance, and 9 articles you should read

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African-American philanthropy

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

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

A group of formerly enslaved African-Americans around the time of the US Civil War

Why we should remember… the Amnesty Act of 1872

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

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Amelia Earhart, Princess Diana, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks and Marie Curie. (Photo by Getty Images)

20 inspirational quotes from women through history