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Sara Forbes Bonetta (seated besides her husband James Davies was brought to England in the late 1840s by a Navy captain. Presented to Queen Victoria, she impressed the monarch so much that Victoria became her godmother

Black History MonthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, plus 7 articles you should read

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.

St Hadrian of CanterburyMedieval African theologian. 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.

Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South. 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

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

BBC at 100Mirroring Multicultural Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

African-American philanthropy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

A group of formerly enslaved African-Americans around the time of the US Civil War

Why we should remember…The Amnesty Act of 1872

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

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

Amelia Earhart, Princess Diana, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks and Marie Curie. (Photo by Getty Images)

20 inspirational quotes from women through history

Three female civil rights pioneers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ras Prince Monolulu entertains the crowds at Aintree racecourse, 1931 (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Ras Prince Monolulu: the horse-race tipster who transformed himself into an Abyssinian prince. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Gilded Age preview: “Entry into a world that really hasn't been covered on television before”

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.

Emma Dabiri"The Harder They Fall doesn’t engage with one of the main drivers behind the violence". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph of Bass Reeves, the first black deputy US marshal west of the Mississippi River

From slave to real Lone Ranger? The incredible life of black Wild West lawman Bass Reeves

Emma Dabiri“He dreamed a career that seemed impossible and made it a reality”. 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

West Indian recruits lift logs in training at a WW2 air base

OpinionWhy WW2 commemorations need to recognise the Black contribution

Zazie Beetz and Jonathan Majors in the Netflix film The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall: the real cowboys who inspired the black Western

Black cowboys on screen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare’s black Othello

African-American women’s battle for the vote. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Apartheid: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.