slave rebellion

This fall 500 Louisianans, in 19th-century attire, will re-create America’s largest plantation uprising.

Nearly one hundred years before enslaved African arrived in Jamestown, the Spanish brought 100 slaves to the coast of what is now Georgia or South Carolina.

Virginia engaged in “the most public, focused, and sustained discussion of slavery and emancipation that ever occurred."

Long before Reserve, Louisiana was home to a chemical plant and riddled with cancer, it suffered the deprivations of enslavement.

Across Virginia, the landscape of slavery is fading as some work to preserve what is left.

In St. Augustine lie the ruins of Fort Mose, built in 1738 as the first free black settlement in what would become the United States.

Running through all of historian Gerald Horne's books are the twin themes of revolution and repression.

How can Americans have such different memories of slavery?

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.

America loves a good scoundrel. We should remember this one.

A rebellion against French colonial rule in 1791 led to a new kind of society.

The Reverend Dr. Henry Highland Garnet may be the most famous African American you never learned about.

On Haiti, Donald Trump sounds a lot like Thomas Jefferson.

And some other things about the country that Donald Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know.

The Stono rebellion of 1739 was the biggest slave rebellion in Britain’s North American colonies, but it is barely commemorated.

Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its climax in the Age of Revolution.

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas Jefferson.

Popular early U.S. tales depicted Muslims as menacing figures in faraway lands or cardboard moral paragons

Atlantic writer William Phillips conducted three interviews with Brown before Brown's fateful raid on Harper's Ferry.

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