France extracted a huge indemnity from Haiti, in exchange for recognition of its independence. This week marked the 200th ...

It was the largest slave revolt in U.S. history—and quickly ... more than 300 black re-enactors wearing 19th-century clothes traced the rebels’ 26-mile route from LaPlace, in St. John the ...

What happened in the rest of the world was that all of Western civilization eventually turned against slavery in the 19th century. This meant the end of slavery in European empires around the ...

Charting this history from the early 19th century to the American Civil War and the eventual abolition of slavery in Cuba and Brazil in the late 19th century, he examines how the last slave ...

Millions of people were abducted from West Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the ...

joined by an extraordinary flow not of European colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th century, almost four times as many Africans as Europeans came to the Americas. Looking down ...

A: Slavery was intimately related to the major trends [and] developments that we associate with American history in the first half of the 19th century. For example, territorial expansion ...

The first accounts described runaway slaves and Native Americans raiding ... from the 18th or early 19th century and a small lead shot, probably 1700s. Jason Pietra Using a dating method called ...

Outlawing the slave trade and converting freed slaves ... Portuguese missionaries in Angola and Mozambique in the late 19th century and 20th century were renowned and feared for their willingness ...

If such a line as “Mason-Dixon” existed (actually, there were a series of lines drawn by “compromising” Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided ...

The continuation of slavery within Africa in the 19th century after abolition is also poorly documented. ARAB SLAVE TRADE Historical documents containing statistics are not always very reliable.