Slavery is often described as a dark chapter that ended with abolition laws and moral awakening, yet history tells a more complicated story. While legal slavery was formally outlawed in many nations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the ...

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside. “It was unlike any book they had ever seen ...