From South Asia to Mexico, from slave to spiritual icon, this woman’s life is a snapshot of Spain’s colonization – and the Pacific slave trade history that books ofte…
Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the ...
Chilli-eating contests and pork pie wreaths: the eccentric new funeral trends
Chilli-eating competitions and pork pie floral wreaths have not historically been used to commemorate the dead – but Britain ...
Project finds slavery-era ruling still cited
An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced ...
Law school project finds slavery citations still being used today
There are more than 7,000 direct citations of slavery-law precedents that continue to guide lawyers and judges.
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Anthony Benezet, the Quakers, Christianity, and the ‘war’ against American slavery!
Do you know who Anthony Benezet is? Or was?  Think about an early incarnation of Martin Luther King, Jr. … in whiteface.  Or Frederick Douglass’s brother from another mother.  Better […] ...
Commonwealth Museum to host exhibit honoring Massachusetts’ revolutionary history
William Galvin, secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is launching an exhibition celebrating the 250th anniversary ...