Narrator: In the 18th century, the movement to end the slave trade emerged. In Britain a powerful abolition movement inspired by activists and politicians from around the world began to bring about ...

Through Olaudah Equiano's harrowing firsthand account and a remarkable set of primary documents, including a runaway slave ad ...

In 1787, entrepreneurial potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730 – 95) produced a ceramic medallion in support of the abolition of the slave trade. A forerunner of the protest badge, Wedgwood's anti-slavery ...

Both artists in new shows at Sarah Bouchard and Elizabeth Moss galleries are non-American voices.

Ava Doherty paints a reflective portrait of a scholar whose work interrogates empire, race, and institutional power.

Gwen Ford Faulkenberry is an author, teacher, and award-winning columnist from Ozark. Email her at gfaulkenberry@hotmail.com.

The UK's role in the slave trade is a matter of "deep sorrow and regret", Prime Minister Tony Blair has said. In a statement marking the anniversary of the British act abolishing the slave trade, the ...