Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh ...

Part I. Settings. England -- The Gold Coast -- Barbados -- Part II. British bound labor. "White slaves": British labor in early Barbados -- "A company of white negros": the lives and labor of British ...

Prologue -- Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the ...

After visiting the Varner-Hogg plantation an hour south of Houston, historical book publisher Michelle Haas seemed incensed by what she had seen. At an exhibit that details the farm’s use as a sugar ...

Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was ...

A fire that ravaged Nottoway Plantation, one of the Deep South's largest pre-Civil War mansions, sparked a wave of mixed reactions online, ranging from jubilation to dismay. The Louisiana landmark, ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victims of slave labor in Brazil are less likely to be rescued following a government decree that changes the country's definition of slavery and weakens ...

(Reuters) - Brazil's government issued a decree backtracking on plans to weaken the definition of slave labor in response to criticism and a court suspension of the original edict, according to the ...