It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

WGAL NEWS 8 IN LANCASTER COUNTY. CHRISTINA HERITAGE DAYS IS BEING CELEBRATED TOMORROW AND THIS YEAR THEY’RE REMEMBERING AN EVENT FROM 1851. THAT’S WHEN FUGITIVE SLAVES CONFRONTED A SLAVEHOLDER FROM ...

The Great Resistance, an expansive new book by author and historian Carrie Gibson, brings together often unheard narratives to tell the bigger picture of a difficult time ...

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July 14 marks the date of Denmark Vesey’s planned rebellion 201 years ago. Since the dawn of slavery in this country, “there has been slave resistance.” In an original study, historian Herbert ...

A team of Cornell researchers is collecting “thousands of stories of resistance” in the form of artifacts to shed light on part of America’s troubled past. The project, entitled “Freedom on the Move,” ...

A story of resistance that would continue to be told through the years in verse and on film began in 1839 when Portuguese kidnappers forced large numbers of native Africans from an area in present-day ...

In a virtual award ceremony held Thursday, Frederick Douglass Book Prize recipients Vincent Brown and Marjoleine Kars underscored the importance of slavery studies in historical education programs.

Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland -- Free trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade? -- Revolt! Africans conspire with the French and Spanish ...

The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of many studies, but the individual life histories of the arrival and survival ...

When I moved to Richmond in December 2014, I chose the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood because I liked the old factories converted into living spaces. Out on a walk, I wandered into a large field that ...