Slavery

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Historian Prof. Tamar Herzig, Vice Dean for Research at Entin Faculty of Humanities, exposed previously unknown evidence of an organized gang rape of a group of enslaved Jewish girls and women from North Africa in the Italian city of Livorno at the beginning of the 17th century. The rape was organized by Dr. Bernardetto Buonromei, a high-ranking state official at Livorno's slave prison, who was also…

Abraham Lincoln is remembered not only as a statesman and America’s 16th president, but his fame transcended the gamut of politics in his heroic role during the US Civil war and his role in the abolition of slaves. Born on February 12, 1809, to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the life of the self-educated lawyer and public figure has been subject of numerous books – both fictive and non-fictional. Lincoln, who was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending a play at…