While Indigenous slaves were put to work in a variety of activities such as ranching and construction, “they were especially prevalent in the mining economy, the backbone of colonial Latin ...

Drawing of Pizarro, a Spanish ... of anti-colonial sentiment boiled over and led to the removal of statues across the world. In Bristol, the bronze statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward ...

Underwater artifacts make up a small proportion of colonial-era heritage, but as their number increases, the time is ripe for ...

Imagine that you are a merchant in 17th-century Mexico. With bated breath, you stand at the harbor of Acapulco, eagerly ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous book under the title Why We Can’t Wait.  Besides addressing the crime of slavery ...

By 1700, global trade was deeply entrenched in colonial expansion, financial innovation, and the increasing demand for luxury and staple goods.

Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

Bengali textile workers were not enslaved as ancillary to men or as commodities of pleasure alone. They were enslaved and ...

New Orleans is a city known for its incredible food; and for those lucky enough to be in town on Feb. 9 for Super Bowl LIX, ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.