Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in ...

Freeing the slaves in America was not done with the stroke of a pen. President Abraham Lincoln and other anti-slavery ...

California's Proposition 6 and Nevada's Question 4 sounded like similar prison reforms. But key differences may explain the ...

Arguments about reparations rumbled once again this week as the King spoke at the Commonwealth summit in Samoa.

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ...

The book is based on two decades of research into abolition, universal freedom and justice. In it, I explore the role played ...

The Brazilian Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Thursday issued an apology to the black population for subjecting their ancestors to slavery, which still has consequences in modern-day ...

Despite progress over the past 10 years to promote and protect the human rights of Black people worldwide, racism and ...

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Compensation for slavery has actually been made before – but to slave owners, said Thomas Craemer, professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut, on The Conversation. After Britain ...