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Black history

View of Algiers with mediterranean galleys, published in Johannes van Keulen's Dutch Atlas, 1709. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

When Britons were slaves in Africa

Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-metre run at the 1968 Olympic Games, engage in a victory stand protest against unfair treatment of blacks in the United States. They refuse to recognise the American flag and national anthem. (Getty Images)

The fight for Black America

Black British history and Charles I’s children. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Is Martin Luther King's ‘I have a dream’ the greatest speech in history?

Crusade logistics and the battle over the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Pacific War and First World War black soldiers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Malcolm X chats with Eric Abrahams – the Oxford Union president who vowed to “fill the room with blacks” – before giving his famous address on 3 December 1964. (Getty)

Malcolm X in Oxford: Black power amid dreaming spires

“He was so much more than that speech”: David Oyelowo on playing Martin Luther King in upcoming blockbuster Selma

Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Historian at the Movies: 12 Years a Slave reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nelson and Winnie Mandela days after his release, 1990. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis)

Nelson Mandela: “a symbol of the struggle against racism”

18th-century slave uprising

History on trial

The Uganda railway, which links Uganda and Kenya with the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in Kenya, was built during the period of British control of East Africa. (SSPL/Getty Images)

The dark side of abolitionism

Rosa Parks Riding the Bus

My history hero: Rosa Parks (1913-2005). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration titled ‘The petition for abolishing the slave trade’, from Amelia Opie’s ’The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar’, London, 1826. “Come, listen to my plaintive ditty,/Ye tender hearts, and children dear!/And, should it move your souls to pity,/Oh! try to end the griefs you hear.” (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

9 key places connected to the abolition of the British slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The end of slavery and headaches in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A European buyer of enslaved people

General History

Who started the enslavement of Africans in the Americas?

Britain’s slaves in Latin America

Latin American slavery and historical hair. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Civil rights and the Civil War

New US citizens celebrate after taking the oath at a US District Court for the Central District of California naturalisation ceremony, 2007. (Photo by Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Simon Schama on American history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King: A drum major for justice