In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston sought to publish the story of Cudjo Lewis, the final slave-ship survivor. Instead it languished in a vault. Until now.
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On this Texas island, pirates kept the Atlantic slave trade going—even after it was abolished | Timeline
The tragic history of the African slave trade in the Gulf of Mexico has been largely forgotten
View MoreModern-day slavery: The numbers | Al Jazeera
Which parts of the world have the most slaves and just how many people are living in slavery today?
View MoreCUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice Debuts Online Archive on Slavery in New York | Good Black News
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of the City University of New York, has announced the establishment of the New York Slavery Records Index, an online archive of slavery records from 1525 until the end of the Civil War.
View MoreOne of History’s Foremost Anti-Slavery Organizers Is Often Left Out of the Black History Month Story | Time
“If slavery has been destroyed merely from necessity, let every class be enfranchised at the dictation of justice. Then we shall have a Constitution that shall be reverenced by all, rulers who shall be honored and revered, and a Union that shall be sincerely loved by a brave and patriotic people, and which can never be severed.”
View MoreDetroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery | The New York Times
In “The Dawn of Detroit,” the historian Tiya Miles transports the reader back to the 18th century and brings to life a multiracial community that began in slavery.
View MorePeople for sale Where lives are auctioned for $400 | CNN
Where lives are auctioned for $400.
View MoreHer Ancestor Was a Slave to Cherokee Indians. Now She’s Applying to Be a Citizen of the Tribe | Yes Magazine
A landmark decision offers opportunity for healing between descendants of slaveholders and slaves.
View MoreThe ‘slave block’ in a town in Virginia: should it stay or should it go? | The Guardian
A onetime site of slave sales in Fredericksburg has provoked a fierce debate. This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history – but should it be removed from view?
View MoreSold on the Courthouse Steps | International African American Museum (IAAM)
An auction block at a commercial slave market is probably the most common visual that comes to mind when you think of people being separated from families during enslavement.
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