Race, Slavery & Emancipation

7+ hour, 56+ min ago   (23+ words) Research examines historic links between slave-trade wealth and Britain’s early financial system London Daily News We're verifying your browser. You'll be redirected shortly....

5+ hour ago   (582+ words) By Michael J. Reitz This article originally appeared in The Detroit News July 14, 2026. America looks inevitable today, 250 years after the Declaration of Independence. But in the 15 years leading up to the Revolution, independence was anything but inevitable. In fact, our founders…...

18+ hour, 22+ min ago   (1233+ words) Independent Institute Understanding the Declaration of Independence Today’s readers of the Declaration of Independence usually know its opening passages by heart—the equality of mankind, the inalienable rights, and so forth—but they’re often less familiar with the specific grievances…...

11+ hour, 5+ min ago   (53+ words) The Times From Thomas to Oliver, how the Cromwells remade England The House of Cromwell by Miranda Malins tells the stories behind the powerful dynasty with commoner roots £1 for 3 months Enjoy unlimited access to all articles. Ends soon. Enjoy unlimited…...

6+ hour, 1+ min ago   (1122+ words) Register of British Slave Traders shows clergymen financed company that trafficked enslaved Africans on hundreds of voyages Nearly 250 years after the abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano made the Christian case for reparative justice, the archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, visited the Ghanaian…...

6+ hour, 2+ min ago   (591+ words) The Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the enslavement and transatlantic trafficking of millions of African people, according to new research on Britain’s slavery history. Dr Michael Bennett of the University of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (753+ words) A dilapidated two-century-old building in Saint-Louis, Senegal bears testament to the island’s little-known past as part of the transatlantic slave trade, the traces of which are quickly and quietly disappearing from view. Located in the country’s north, between the Atlantic…...

17+ hour, 51+ min ago   (183+ words) DENTON, Md. - Officials and neighbors gathered in Denton on Tuesday for the official groundbreaking of a new museum and visitor center near Denton in honor of an Eastern Shore trailblazer. The Anna Murray Douglass Museum and Visitor Center is slated to…...

19+ hour, 2+ min ago   (522+ words) Sylvie Bello, founder of Cameroon American Council and author of "The Liberator's Liberator". From left, Sen. Johnny Mautz, Denton Town Administrator Scott Getchell and Tarence Bailey break ground at the Anna Murray Douglass property on Meeting House Road just outside…...

23+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1703+ words) A lodge tucked into Colorado’s Front Range mountains was once a woodland Harlem Renaissance, attracting jazz musician Duke Ellington, poet Langston Hughes, writer Zora Neale Hurston and countless other Black Americans who sought refuge, joy and fresh air at a…...