The past decade has witnessed a resurgence in the illegal trafficking of child slaves, particularly in the western African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gabon ...

“Kentucky’s sold 80,000 slaves down the Ohio River ... In June of 2021, Drake and others installed the public art piece “On the Banks of Freedom” near the Waterfront.

“In Slavery’s Wake” tells the international history of slavery and Black freedom Kaila Philo Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th ...

3 Singing at contraband camps helped former slaves navigate the gray area between slavery and freedom. Members of the contraband camp sing “There is a Balm in Gilead” as Charlotte Jenkins ...

freedom would be granted to slaves within those states. The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented ...

Written by John Hope Franklin, a pioneering scholar who taught at both Durham institutions and whose scholarship was key to launching the discipline of African American studies, “From Slavery to ...