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The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain's first black sports star

Life in bondage Formerly enslaved African-Americans sit for a photograph in Virginia, c1850. At that time, 4 million people were still enslaved across the US, as debates around abolition raged on both sides of the Atlantic (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

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The black abolitionists who shocked Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of an African man, c1530 . (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The missing Tudors: black people in 16th-century England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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David Olusoga"Black history affects all of us – it is British history". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Afua Hirsh with her ‘Enslaved’ co-presenters Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel L Jackson

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Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson at her home in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Alamy)

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Isabel Wilkerson: “Caste is like the wind. You may not be able to see it, but it’s a quietly destructive force”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hiring more black academics “to teach all sorts of histories” is key to instigating real change in university history education, lecturer Charlotte Lydia Riley argues. (Photo by Shutterstock)

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How can we improve diversity within history education?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The African who transformed Anglo-Saxon England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

François-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture

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Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Isabel Wilkerson on caste in America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Seacole as seen in a contemporary photo. Although she became famous for her nursing work in the Crimean War, her story subsequently became largely forgotten. (Photo by Alamy)

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History heroBernardine Evaristo chooses Mary Seacole (1805–1881). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Afua Hirsch with the Samburu people, Kenya

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Africa’s cultural liberation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The American Civil War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The magnificent ruins of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani

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Africa’s medieval golden age

National guardsmen confront confront citizens during Chicago's race riots

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Red summer of 1919: the history of Chicago's race riots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, c 1866. (Photo by Shutterstock)

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African American abolitionists in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paul Stephenson and Guy Bailey

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The great British civil rights scandal: the Bristol bus boycott

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Freedom fighters: the enslaved people who fought for the abolition of slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ship ‘Jesus of Lübeck’ was used in John Hawkins’ infamous early slaving voyages, some of which were sponsored by Elizabeth I. (Image by Alamy)

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Were there slaves in Elizabethan England?

English admiral Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), circa 1585. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Francis Drake: slave trader. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Francis Drake portrait

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Francis Drake’s forgotten role in the English slave trade

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American spotlight: how today’s protests echo historical outrage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain and the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King

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The civil rights movement: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From Nelson to Churchill: challenging British heroes with Afua Hirsch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men operate a cotton gin in Dahomey, Mississippi, in 1898

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7 key questions about the transatlantic slave trade – answered

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A brief guide to the transatlantic slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Abolition in Britain: the link between slavery and the British national identity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Woodcut illustration of slave labour on a sugar plantation

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Success, sugar and slaves: the uncomfortable story of slaveholder Simon Taylor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Olaudah Equiano (Photo by Getty)

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Who was Olaudah Equiano – and why was his story of slavery so important?

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