
US Civil War: how Europe aided the Confederacy
How Europe helped the Confederacy during the American Civil War while professing its abhorrence of slavery is an interesting tale of hypocrisy and mendacity in equal measure.
How Europe helped the Confederacy during the American Civil War while professing its abhorrence of slavery is an interesting tale of hypocrisy and mendacity in equal measure.
The Founding Fathers never conceived of the United States as a democracy and let’s not get started on women, slaves and the poor as Tony McMahon discovers
A court case from 1700 reveals a horrific story of young men lobotomised and sold into slavery in Maryland
John Coakley Lettsom was a doctor and noted abolitionist – or opponent of slavery – who accidentally ended up owning about a thousand slaves
There is a long history of toppling statues and renaming streets and cities and historian Tony McMahon thinks we should vex a lot less about this
A shocking example of vintage corporate racism with a 1923 Christmas card where African employees were treated as design accessories as Tony McMahon reports
Abraham Lincoln killer Lewis Powell is more famous today because of the celebrity he attained on account of his rugged good looks – but he was still hanged
What was the difference between Roman and American slavery in practice?