Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...

Linsey Davis interviews Lee Hawkins, a journalist, about his searing new memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My ...

History of Republic Liberia, by a resident of Monrovia. Back in America some abolitionists attacked Liberia for being a place to dump freed slaves, so confusing the issue of emancipation.

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced ... variety was manumission – the ability of slaves to be freed. Roman owners freed their slaves in considerable numbers ...

Documents created by federal agencies after the Civil War provide a wealth of personal data about the nearly four million African-Americans freed ... the Days of Slavery, an oral history project ...