Archaeologists have found a hymn dating from nearly 3,000 years ago that describes the city of Babylon in glowing terms, praises its people, location, and river. It seems the words struck such a chord ...

Claim that only 1.6% of Americans in 1860 owned slaves erases critical historical context This claim uses a misleading statistic to minimize the impact and prevalence of slavery in America.

Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means.

Historians, academics, economists and researchers agree the economy many Americans enjoy today was set up on a foundation of hundreds of years of free labor.

The study represents a milestone in the recognition of the cultural heritage of marginalized communities in Iraq. For the first time, a structure directly linked to the country’s Black ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence about an ancient Mesopotamian landscape, offering fresh insight into the legacy of black slavery during the early Islamic Period.

The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and enabled enslaved people to escape as stowaways in below-deck hideaways.

Nottoway plantation just burned down, so we decided to look into its history and other plantations where the most brutal chattel slavery occurred.

Hence the metaphor of slavery also shapes Augustine’s picture of redemption, which is construed not as emancipation but rather as being purchased by a better dominus. Salvation makes us “faithful ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy. The ...