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Freedom House in Arlington, Va. Reopens to Tell Story of Slavery and Freedom

Freedom House was once a center for the trafficking in enslaved Blacks in Northern Virginia. The occupation of the city by Union forces at the…

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Jamelle Bouie on How the Domestic Slave Trade Worked

Jamelle Bouie has a big article in the New York Times Sunday Review on the Atlantic Slave Trade today, bit he also wrote a short…

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Animated Map of the Slave Trade Shows All Recorded Voyages

This animated map depicting the “slave trade” has been around for a number of years. About 4% of those Atlantic slave trade ships landed in…

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