This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A vivid rumor began circulating in the United States in the middle of ...
Ghana will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly in March to designate the African slave trade as "the most serious crime against humanity," Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama ...
It stunned audiences with a sold-out run at New York Theatre Workshop. Now, Slave Play is coming to Broadway. Written by Jeremy O. Harris, "one of the most promising playwrights of his generation" ...
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American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, circa 1855. Staff Writer America has been working to fully live up to the ideals laid out in the Declaration of Independence ever since the document was ...
Before the Civil War, numerous enslaved people made the treacherous journey to Mexico in a bold quest for freedom that historians are now unearthing By Richard Grant Photographs by Scott Dalton Diana ...
Digging a stadium-sized scoop out of one of the oldest sections of a city brimming with history is bound to unearth fragments of the past. In Shockoe Bottom, those fragments are likely to have a ...
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