The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the ...

France’s lower house has voted finally to scrub a foundational slavery-era edict from French law. The National Assembly voted ...

Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon ...

Among the proclamations of the first French republic was an end to slavery in its island possessions—a forerunner of wider ...

Lawmakers voted unanimously to strip the “Code Noir,” the texts that regulated slavery until it was abolished in 1848. Some ...

Some Americans had opposed slavery since colonial times. In 1777, Vermont was the first U.S. territory to ban slavery, and the state of Pennsylvania followed suit in 1780. By 1804, Northern states had ...

(WHTM) Pennsylvania had slaves before Pennsylvania was even Pennsylvania. Dutch and Swedish settlers in the Delaware Valley held Africans as slaves. When William Penn and the Society of Friends ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

The discovery of 158 accounts in the state-owned bank Caixa Econômica has triggered an investigation to clarify where the money ended up and is fueling the debate about the legacy of inequality in the ...