Slavery

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The shoemaker who helped slaves escape the South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sierra Leone in the mid-19th century – houses and people walking past.

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Recaptive Number 11,407Piecing together the life of a freed slave

A boy signs a petition against slavery (bottom left) in an 1826 satirical cartoon originally titled 'John Bull Taking a Clear View on the Negro Slavery Question', by R Cruikshank (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

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The children who fought for the abolition of slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Spartacus, the escaped gladiator who became a leader in the Third Servile War, and his comrades using vines to abseil down the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in preparation of a surprise attack.

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The Servile Wars: Spartacus & the rebellions that threatened the Roman Republic

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How women helped sustain the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

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Caroline Dodds Pennock“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of "Ashley's sack". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast), c1880. Although Britain outlawed slavery in 1833 and it was abolished in the USA after the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War in 1865, the transatlantic trade in African slaves continued. The main market for the slaves was Brazil, where slavery was not abolished until 1888. (Colorised black and white print). Artist Unknown.. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

General History

Black British historySlavery's painful legacy

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Black History MonthThe slave who stole a ship and sailed to freedom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

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My history heroPaterson Joseph chooses Ignatius Sancho. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hakim Adi

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Hakim Adi“There’s still this hangover that everything has to be seen through the prism of enslavement”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

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

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

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

Medieval

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

Kris Manjapra Headshot

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Kris Manjapra“Black communities have had to pay for the failures of emancipation”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The failings of emancipation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Escaping slavery in the American South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Demerara slave uprising. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In late 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong, facing a shortage of water, threw overboard much of their ‘cargo’. The massacre of 133 African people and resulting law case – not for murder, but insurance – focusses attention to the treatment of enslaved people. (Image by Alamy)

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The Zong Massacre: what the dark episode meant for the British slave trade and abolition

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How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman

Q&ACould Roman slaves buy their own freedom?

An illustration of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865

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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?

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How should we teach the slave trade?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emma Dabiri"William Cuffay's story is more relevant now than ever". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The slave trade: a family history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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