It was named after its owners, the Vettii brothers, two former slaves. Aulus Vettius Conviva and Aulus Vettius Restitutus got wealthy by selling wine after they were freed. Adorned in mythological ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as ...

an 11-year-old boy and son of an African tribal leader who was kidnapped in 1755 from his home in what is now Nigeria. He was one of the 10 to 12 million Africans who were sold into slavery from ...

Throughout history there have been people who attempted to justify slavery. Many of them did so purely out of self-interest, in order to continue a barbaric trade, but some historical philosophers ...

While slave owners plied enslaved people with meals and downtime to prevent rebellions, many used this respite for escapes or ...