slave population

A twist of fate brought the first Africans to Virginia in 1619. See how slavery grew in the U.S. over two centuries.

As the hunger for more farmland stretched west, so too did the demand for enslaved labor.

Rumors that enslaved Black New Yorkers were planning a revolt spread across Manhattan even more quickly than the fires for which they were being blamed.

Jefferson’s system depended on shoring up the bulwarks of race and basing the law on a theory of government that withdrew protection from unfavored groups.

The story of a regional ruling class that struck a devil’s bargain with disease, going beyond negligence to cultivate semi-annual yellow fever epidemics.

Visualizing the legacy of slavery and redlining, 1860 to the present.

Another chance to examine the terms we use and why they matter.

One Texas Republican state House member wants to create a “patriotic” education project to celebrate the Lone Star State—and whitewash its ugly past.

New Jersey was known as the slave state of the North, and our early economy was built on unpaid labor.

The maps embrace everyone —free and enslaved, from the first national census of the late 18th century to the sophisticated surveys of the early 21st century.

How the American Anti-Slavery Almanac became an influential best seller.

If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.

The visualizations condense an enormous amount of data into a set of aesthetically daring and easily digestible visualisations.

The Electoral College was created to help white Southerners maintain their disproportionate influence in national governance.

What we remember when we remember the Alamo.

Newspaper announcements from 1859 reveal how some Richmond slaveholders organized to protect the institution of slavery.

History books remember Yorktown as a "victory for the right of self-determination." But the battle guaranteed slavery for nearly another century.

A Flourish data visualisation by Bill Black.

A new book shows us the capital region's earliest years through the eyes and the experiences of leaders like Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Keckley.

A review of Robert Elder's new biography of John C. Calhoun.