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Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years ...

Sometimes the slightest crack in an otherwise solid foundation can trigger the wholesale collapse of an edifice. Such was the ...

In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wi ...

The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition will be remembered at events in Hull this weekend. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Cheryl Payne, will attend a commemoration on Saturday in ...

ELMINA, Ghana (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Africans marked the anniversary on Sunday with a sombre ceremony recalling the suffering of their ancestors ...

Some implications of the abolition of the slave trade / Stanley L. Engerman -- The ideology of antislavery / Howard Temperley -- Religion and British slave emancipation / Roger T. Anstey -- The public ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the ...

A haunting sketch of a ship captain assaulting a teenage slave girl who later died was a major driving force behind the abolitionist movement, experts have revealed. Captain John Kimber was accused of ...

Three centuries ago, an enslaved person in Virginia wrote to a leader of the Church of England, begging to be released from “this cruel bondage.” There was no reply from the church, which at the time ...