Britons learn about the country’s involvement ‘almost as a self-congratulatory narrative’, says historian Joseph Mulhern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starting around 1650, whaling expanded along the Northeast coast of the British American colonies. Whaling expeditions killed ...

When Britain abolished slavery in its empire in 1833, it paid the equivalent of hundreds of billions today in compensation—not to the enslaved, but to the slave owners. It was an imperfect, morally ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...

On 28 August 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act was given royal assent in Britain. This legislation terminated an institution that, for generations, had been the source of an incredibly lucrative trade ...

PROPOSAL HOPES TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION. 60 YEARS AFTER SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED IN THE COMMONWEALTH, LEGISLATION IS FILED AGAIN TO ADDRESS THE LINGERING EFFECTS ON MODERN DAY KENTUCKIANS, SPECIFICALLY ...

April 14 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage -- was founded by ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Starting around 1650, whaling expanded along the Northeast coast of the British ...