Slavery

A scene from the Smithfield Decretals depicting a rabbit beheading a man. Rabbits seem to have a strange place in medieval imagery – and are depicted as having strangely violent tendencies. "It’s the sort of thing to give you nightmares," says David Musgrove. (Photo by Album/British Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

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BlogMedieval(ish) matters #5: chivalry, medieval killer rabbits and prisoners of war in the 15th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Traditional Kente cloth from Ghana (Photo by Dreamstime)

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A new view of Africa’s past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Confronting evils.

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The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)

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Anna WhitelockConfronting slavery’s legacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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 "one of the towering figures in the story that Americans tell about themselves," writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Victorian

Lincoln and slavery: "If I could save the union without freeing any slave, I would"

Georgian

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)

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Brazil: a society shaped by slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on... slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View of Algiers with mediterranean galleys, published in Johannes van Keulen's Dutch Atlas, 1709. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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When Britons were slaves in Africa

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Crusade logistics and the battle over the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian at the Movies: Belle reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Period

18th-century slave uprising

The Uganda railway, which links Uganda and Kenya with the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in Kenya, was built during the period of British control of East Africa. (SSPL/Getty Images)

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The dark side of abolitionism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The end of slavery and headaches in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A European buyer of enslaved people

General History

Who started the enslavement of Africans in the Americas?

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Greek slavery, Victorian heroism and Dan Snow on cars. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of enslaved people in a tobacco factory in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1874

General History

Were enslaved people in America ever paid for their work?

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