click image for close-up When persons being held as slaves were accused by their masters of insubordination, or of eating more than their allotment of food, they might expect to be fitted with an ...

She followed it into a thicket of pines, where she discovered a patch of wild blue indigo hidden among the trees.

A small amount of money injected from the outside can create a powerful dynamic. Selling slaves back to their families for $50 to $100 each -- with the financial assistance of Westerners -- is far ...

Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property was enforced by violence -- actual or threatened. People, black and white, lived together ...

3 The words of Leonor’s confession appeared and reappeared in reports from the Inquisitor Juan Mañozca, who presided over the trial, and in letters from the bishops of Cuba and Panama, as they ...

Instead, you would see tens of millions of native people already living in the Americas, joined by an extraordinary flow not of European colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th ...

She'd get indigo - you know that bush - and boil it ... Joe Smart came back once, and said that our father is dead.” – Adeline Grey Slave Traders first kidnapped people in Africa then stripped them of ...

The recent “noise” about Haitian immigrants eating dogs, cats and geese belies the true history of the brave and awesome Haitian people. The Haitian people are heirs to the greatest story never ...

Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes that one of her ancestors sold slaves, but argues that he should not be judged by today's standards or values. My great-grandfather ...

Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists, and even on the narrowest definition of slavery it's likely that there are far more slaves now than there were ...

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