told McCall that she was “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation” and to gather her belongings and to prepare to be picked up in the afternoon by “Executive Slaves.” Her mother ...

Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful ...

Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, New York, with an illustration of the hold of a slave ship, suggesting a connection between ...

However, as this short documentary from the UK directors Joseph Curran and Dominic Aubrey de Vere explores, near Napoleon‘s tomb are the unmarked final resting places of some 9,000 victims of the ...

18, 2024. (Florence Lo/Pool Photos via AP) LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Britain’s foreign secretary said Monday that reparations for the U.K.'s role in the slave trade are not about the “transfer of cash” ...