During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

When the American Civil War ... of local labour. Slavery had been a long-standing medieval institution in Egypt, with black slaves being transported in caravans via trans-Saharan land routes and then ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd, Thursday on "The ReidOut," compared Trump voters to poor white people who sided with slave owners during the Civil War against their own economic interests ...

When the Civil War started in the spring of 1861, Tubman put aside her fight against slavery to conduct combat as a soldier and spy for the United States Army. She offered her services to a ...