Worcester ruling recognizes limits on Georgia’s power

President Vicente Guerrero abolished slavery in the republic. The decree helped dismantle an institution inherited from colonial rule. Guerrero’s African ancestry also challenges histories that...

President Andrew Jackson signed legislation authorizing negotiated removal of Indigenous nations to lands west of the Mississippi. In practice, pressure and coercion made removal devastating. The...

The Liberator began publication in Boston and demanded an immediate end to slavery. Black readers and supporters helped sustain the newspaper. Print campaigning connected local organizing with a wider...

Nat Turner and companions began an armed uprising in Southampton County. They killed white residents, and white reprisals killed many Black people. Authorities then imposed further restrictions. The...

Resistance organized around Samuel Sharpe’s demand for freedom and paid labor developed into armed rebellion in western Jamaica. Colonial repression was severe. The struggle shows enslaved people...

The House of Commons completed the third reading of the Slavery Abolition Bill. The parliamentary outcome followed antislavery mobilization and resistance in the colonies. Provisions for...

The abolition act took effect in most British colonies, while many formerly enslaved people were required to work as apprentices. Enslavers received compensation; emancipated people did not receive...

A party led by Governor James Stirling attacked a Bindjareb Noongar camp at Pinjarra. Calling the event a “battle” obscured the unequal violence inflicted on the community. Colonial control of land...

African Muslims, including enslaved and free people, organized an uprising in Salvador. Religious networks and literacy supported their mobilization. Its suppression intensified controls over...

Northern Māori rangatira signed He Whakaputanga, asserting independent authority and collective government. It provides a record of Indigenous political agency before the Treaty of Waitangi. The...