enslaved
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Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga is a new two-part series that explores the individuals, institutions and organisations who financed Britain's trade of enslaved Africans.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Slavery in New York expanded under British rule but declined during the first decades of the 19th century, with most enslaved people liberated before 1830.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
On that trip, Mason met free Black Americans who told her and other enslaved people to contest their citizenship status once they reached the Golden State.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The insect’s first trips west came soon after, as the transatlantic slave trade brought ships packed with enslaved Africans to the New World.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
The people who were legal “property” of presidents were among the millions of enslaved people who lived and toiled in America—and who were stuck in the shadows, too.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
