Slavery

The failings of emancipation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Escaping slavery in the American South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Demerara slave uprising. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In late 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong, facing a shortage of water, threw overboard much of their ‘cargo’. The massacre of 133 African people and resulting law case – not for murder, but insurance – focusses attention to the treatment of enslaved people. (Image by Alamy)

The Zong Massacre: what the dark episode meant for the British slave trade and abolition

How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&ACould Roman slaves buy their own freedom?

An illustration of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865

Jamaica's Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire

A modern illustration shows prisoners of war being sold into slavery

Slavery in ancient Greece: what was life like for enslaved people?

How should we teach the slave trade?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emma Dabiri"William Cuffay's story is more relevant now than ever". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The slave trade: a family history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emma Dabiri"Harriet Jacobs’ writing transports readers to the world of Southern slavery". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

African Europeans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of the Haiti Rebellion. From 1791-1804, the Caribbean isle of Hispaniola burned and convulsed as enslaved Africans rose up in rebellion after rebellion – finally emerging as independent Haiti. (Image by Getty Images)

The Haitian Revolution: the enslaved Africans who rose up against France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Opulent headquarters East India House in London, 1850. From inside this grand building, the East India Company directors oversaw the governance of India and its associated territories (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

1838: A year in the life of the British empire

How slavery fuelled the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Harriet Tubman (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell

The colonial secrets of Britain’s stately homes

Illustration of the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne

Slaves in the Viking Age: how prevalent were enslaved people in Viking societies?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enslaved women & resistance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Atlantic slave war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life in bondage Formerly enslaved African-Americans sit for a photograph in Virginia, c1850. At that time, 4 million people were still enslaved across the US, as debates around abolition raged on both sides of the Atlantic (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

The black abolitionists who shocked Victorian Britain

Afua Hirsh with her ‘Enslaved’ co-presenters Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel L Jackson

Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

François-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture

Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The American Civil War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The magnificent ruins of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani

Africa’s medieval golden age

American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, c 1866. (Photo by Shutterstock)

African American abolitionists in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Freedom fighters: the enslaved people who fought for the abolition of slavery