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As reported by the BBC "Slavery and the 'Scramble for Africa'" by Dr Saul David on 17 February 2011 -- What were the ...

King George III of Britain Qian Long [Ch'ien Lung], (r. 1735-1795) ruled China for much of the 18th century, the last period in wh...

The British East India Company was making profits by exchanging opium for tea in China. When Chinese authorities tried to obstruct this...

Was Britain 'built on the blood of slaves'? On June 2nd (Tuesday) a team of historians from UCL (University College London) will lau...

Ships flying the Dutch West India flag. The Dutch West India Company introduced slavery to New York (known then as New Netherland) in 1625 w...

Breadfruit Despite many setbacks, Jamaica continued to grow as an agricultural colony. However, its troubles in war were not yet over. The A...

A Fatal Impact: Eugenics, Social Darwinism, and Genocide During the 19th century, racial categorization took on a pseudoscientific stance. T...

Dirty Little Secret To see the Revolutionary war through the eyes of slaves is to better understand why so many of them fought for the crown...