You’ll never guess what David Olusoga’s new series is about. It’s Britain’s slave trade. This is, I think we can agree, familiar ground for the BBC historian, yet here we are. This two-part ...

This revelatory history shows just how deeply embedded slavery is in the foundations of modern Britain ...

Letters: Readers respond to William Pettigrew’s article about the lasting significance of the slave trade to Britain’s politics, economy, institutions and culture ...

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This story starts — but certainly doesn't end — in 19th century Maryland, when John Townshend updated his will. Townshend grew convinced at the end of his life that God would punish him if he did not ...

We have the story of a divided nation - not divided as we know now, but divided between states that banned slavery and states that embraced it. In 1848, in the slave state of Georgia, a husband and ...

Isaac Franklin spent part of Christmas Day 1833 assessing his company’s operations and making plans for the future. Writing from New Orleans to one of his business partners in Virginia, Franklin took ...

Worked half to death in the mines, the rebellious slave Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) catches the attention of the gladiator dealer who sees profit in his resistance to authority. Taken from the mines, he ...

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