PARIS (AP) — Vandals have defaced a monument celebrating the abolition of slavery in southern France, in an apparent response to growing anger over entrenched racism and calls for the removal of ...

A testament to the ideological underpinnings of emancipation is consecrated in the east of France, where the Abolition Trail connects four key sites that helped pave the way towards freedom for ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the ...

France TV Distribution has acquired “Furcy,” an epic film inspired by the true story of a slave in a French colony who was able to achieve legal emancipation prior to the definitive abolition of ...

Haitian General Toussaint Louverture was a prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution (front). In the 1800s, he was arrested and imprisoned in France’s Fort de Joux (back) where he is now remembered ...

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 ...