In May or June 1613, Jan Rodrigues, a free sailor from Hispaniola (in what is today the Dominican Republic), who worked for a Dutch fur trading company, was…
Online Exhibitions
The American Antiquarian Society and the Lapidus Center have partnered to create a digital exhibition on Nat Turner. Using print and manuscript collections at the Antiquarian Society and the Schomburg Center for…
Over the course of nearly 20 centuries, millions of East Africans crossed the Indian Ocean and its several seas and adjoining bodies of water in their journey to…
The abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade was a long, and tortuous process that spanned almost nine decades. Ultimately, a conjunction of economic, political, social, and moral factors…
Though victimized, exploited and oppressed, Africans have been creative agents of their own history, culture, and political future. Lest We Forget documents and interprets the obstacle-ridden but life-affirming experiences of…
Twenty-five years ago in New York City, archaeologists excavated one of the most significant finds in American history: the largest known intact colonial African cemetery in America, the…
In Motion presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. With 16,000…