Zambi of Palmares is Beheaded
On 20 November 1695, Zambi of Palmares – ruler of an ‘invincible’ community of former slaves in the Brazilian jungle – was killed by the Portuguese.
On 20 November 1695, Zambi of Palmares – ruler of an ‘invincible’ community of former slaves in the Brazilian jungle – was killed by the Portuguese.
Scotland’s profiteering and complicity within the British Empire’s transatlantic slave trade.
When the abolitionist author visited Britain and Ireland in 1845 he was celebrated in poems and songs wherever he went. Arriving as an enslaved man, he left with his freedom.
A new term inadvertently changed the way people thought about runaway slaves.
John Brown, the abolitionist firebrand, remains a potent figure in the United States’ febrile politics of race.
Indigenous peoples in the West of the United States continued to be held in bondage long after the abolition of plantation slavery in the South.
The abolition of slavery was only the beginning of a culture war on race and empire that divided the intellectual classes of Victorian Britain.
Once the slave-trading capital of Britain, the memory of Britain’s empire of enslavement remains visible in Liverpool’s public buildings and streets.
Europeans did not introduce slavery to North America – although they did change the way it was practised.
The Dutch role in the slave trade cannot be dismissed as a matter of numbers.