In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

A local court and Taylor's son denied the inheritance. The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the former slaves, but they never received the land or its monetary equivalent. One ...

One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

Big Blue Nation is hoping first-year coach Mark Pope can push Kentucky past the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2019. The Wildcats landed the No. 3 seed in the Midwest ...

Women and slaves were welcome to join the dialogue. The community led a frugal life and practised total equality between men and women, which was uncommon at the time. In this atmosphere ...

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Before the Selection Sunday show began, Mark Pope called for silence and addressed the Kentucky basketball faithful in front of him. A group of well over a hundred people had assembled in a club ...

This Patrick was the son of a civic official, the grandson of a priest and a member of a slave-owning family. He was fascinatingly flawed, a man whose traumatic experiences of being enslaved in ...

GYRATING awkwardly in dark eye make-up and girls’ clothes, the dancing boys of Afghanistan twirl for their depraved masters. These wretched children - some as young as ten - aren’t just forced ...

It explores Welsh links to slavery and the role of Sir Henry Morgan - the Welsh plantation owner and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. Azuka was inspired to write the play after a visit to ...

Instead, they claim they are being subjected to grueling, near-slave-like conditions, forced to perform for hours on end in hazardous environments, and denied medical care - all for a pittance in pay.