In the years preceding the War for Southern Independence, the question whether slavery was legal under the US Constitution was in contention between originalists—who insisted that the Constitution ...

New research led by University of Glasgow has helped shed light on the origins of the earliest governing institutions in the world. Excavations conducted at the ancient site of Shakhi Kora in ...

Agesilaus II is known as the greatest Spartan King. Credit: Niko978, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 The helots, as the slaves in ancient Sparta were known, were the subjugated part of the population that actually ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Assembly member Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, speaks on a bill at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif ...

Legislation that would give admissions priority to the descendants of slaves at the University of California and California State University is set to be introduced on Monday. Assemblymember Isaac ...

During the construction of the Parthenon of Acropolis, slaves worked alongside Athenian citizens doing the same work for equal pay. Credit: Public Domain Was the Parthenon of Acropolis built with the ...

When President Biden visits the country this week, he is expected to highlight a largely overlooked bond between Angola and the United States that was born out of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

THE thesis which it is proposed to outline here embodies the following propositions: (1) Available evidence points to Mesopotamia as the oldest known centre of scientific observation permanently ...

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK finalist Rileasa Slaves has finally revealed the unaired conversation that led to her being termed ‘Rileasa Leasa’ by RuPaul all season, which queen deserved a top four spot and ...

She escaped in 2020, but it took her months to come to terms with the fact she was a victim of modern slavery. Sarah escaped sex trafficking in 2020. She didn’t know she was a victim of modern ...