Slavery

A mural in Bristol of activist Roy Hackett, one of the primary organisers of the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott (Photo by Steve Taylor ARPS/Alamy Stock Photo)

Hakim Adi | “Racism in Britain has a long history – but so does anti-racism”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastRoman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastAn audacious escape from slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An audacious escape from slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain’s war on the slave ships: how the Royal Navy policed the Atlantic in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman slaves: the hidden lives of the empire's invisible labour force. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Slave markets – as shown in this engraving – were a staple of most Roman towns (Image by Alamy)

Ancient Roman slavery: what was life like as an enslaved person?

British author Sathnam Sanghera poses for a photograph in Hampstead

Sathnam Sanghera on the legacy of empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade: everything you want to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General History

Slavery podcast episodes

VideoSlavery and abolition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael Wood on the ongoing legacy of slavery"Slavery’s effects are still working themselves out in our lives today". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The shoemaker who helped slaves escape the South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sierra Leone in the mid-19th century – houses and people walking past.

Recaptive Number 11,407Piecing together the life of a freed slave

A boy signs a petition against slavery (bottom left) in an 1826 satirical cartoon originally titled 'John Bull Taking a Clear View on the Negro Slavery Question', by R Cruikshank (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

The children who fought for the abolition of slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Spartacus, the escaped gladiator who became a leader in the Third Servile War, and his comrades using vines to abseil down the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in preparation of a surprise attack.

The Servile Wars: Spartacus & the rebellions that threatened the Roman Republic

How women helped sustain the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

Caroline Dodds Pennock“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of "Ashley's sack". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast), c1880. Although Britain outlawed slavery in 1833 and it was abolished in the USA after the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War in 1865, the transatlantic trade in African slaves continued. The main market for the slaves was Brazil, where slavery was not abolished until 1888. (Colorised black and white print). Artist Unknown.. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

General History

Black British historySlavery's painful legacy

Black History MonthThe slave who stole a ship and sailed to freedom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

My history heroPaterson Joseph chooses Ignatius Sancho. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hakim Adi

Hakim Adi“There’s still this hangover that everything has to be seen through the prism of enslavement”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Around 200,000 freed slaves, like this soldier, joined the Union military in the Civil Wa

The Emancipation ProclamationYour guide to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation

African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

A painting of Lisbon depicts conspicuous displays of Portuguese imperial wealth and power – including enslaved African people

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

Kris Manjapra“Black communities have had to pay for the failures of emancipation”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.