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Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance

By Dominic Davies, Senior Lecturer in English, City St George's, University of London
Millions of people were abducted from west Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade, from the 15th to the 19th century.

Slavery treated these people as forms of property. It forced them, with brutal violence, to work on plantations producing commodities…The Conversation


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