Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ...

“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 ...

Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...

Enslaved people helped build the foundation of CT. Get to know the lives they lived. Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Enslaved people helped build the foundation of much ...

Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

For Harpham’s explanation of how England came to view the enslavement of others as both a violation of nature and a legitimate institution, all roads ultimately lead back to Rome, and Roman law in ...

Jun. 3—As part of Trenton's celebration of the United State's founding, the Trent House will hold an annual Ice Cream Social at 1719 William Trent House Museum. The cool celebration on June 6th occurs ...