This book has two goals. First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy ...

African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves ...

A Bethlehem Area middle-school teacher giving out an unapproved assignment about slavery to sixth-graders was bad enough, M. Rayah Levy said. But the school board member also said social media ...