Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...

In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, the last nation in the ... most of them destined for gold mines and sugar plantations, brutal work that killed a third to a half of them within five years.

In Cuba and Brazil, slavery continued ... or coerced into boats and brought to Queensland to work on sugar and cotton plantations. "In the 1860s, Queensland emerged as a sugar belt with labour ...

British actor Benedict Cumberbatch might be called to account for his family's slaveholding ties to a sugar plantation ... of white plantation owners who benefited from the slave trade should ...