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The transatlantic slave trade and its impact on the creation of new lexical needs to name African peoples.
: across history people of European descent have been enslaved in multiple contexts—from ’s social slavery to the ’s capture of Europeans, and forms of coerced labor in colonial —though the scale, leg...
did have forms of domestic slavery and coerced servitude at various periods: outright slavery existed in early medieval England and left legal traces into later centuries, while from the 16th–18th cen...
Since 2000 museums in Africa and Europe have shifted from embarrassed silence or narrowly framed displays toward more explicit, multi-faceted reckonings with the various African slave trades, while sc...
Kunta Kinte is the central figure of Alex Haley’s 1976 novel Roots and the subsequent TV miniseries—presented by Haley as his 18th‑century Mandinka ancestor who was captured in Juffureh, The Gambia, a...
The slur "" is etymologically traced by scholars to niger, meaning "black," which passed through Romance-language forms such as negro and nègre before appearing in English variants; over the 18th and ...