With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

She was only 19 years old when she was sentenced to death for killing her slave master, Robert Newsom, six miles south of ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

Wall Street is known for its stock trades, but 300 years ago it was the site of a very different kind of investment.

Slavery in the US People are enslaved in the U.S., too. The National Human Trafficking Resource center, which documents cases of forced labor and sex trafficking, has identified 197,000 victims of ...

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their ...

10 million more people were in modern slavery in 2021 compared to 2016 global ... Global annual profit from forced labour estimated at US$236 billion The annual global profit generated from ...

Rufus Estes served presidents, a princess, and world-famous musicians as a chef on Pullman cars before becoming one of the ...