The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...

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It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent, ...

Back in January, Florida barred its schools from piloting an Advanced Placement course in African American studies. At the time, the state’s evaluators justified this decision with reference to the ...

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Students enter the Treme Villa Meilleur New Orleans African American Museum in New Orleans in February 2008. The museum is on the list of places that Louisiana tourism officials unveiled as the first ...

In this book Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its demise nearly three hundred years later. Most ...

Harold Holzer’s review of “An Emancipation of the Mind” by Matthew Stewart (Bookshelf, April 1) suggests that Christianity in 19th century America was saved from its shameful attachment to slavery by ...

Workers at General Motors occupied factories for 44 days in Flint, controlling irreplaceable auto body dies. Michigan’s ...

No longer is racial terror the sole work of people in white hoods but inked in this nation’s history through legislators. America has a race problem, and it has ...

While discussing the music industry, Gene Simmons claimed that corporations were treating artists like “slaves.” ...