When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

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History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...

House Bill 121 proposes to remove a punishment clause from a section of the state constitution that allows slavery and ...

A CHURCH of England plan to pay £100million slavery reparations is legally dubious, a think tank report claims. The ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Sixty-four years ago, the Estes Park Trail, predecessor to the Estes Park Trail-Gazette, ran columns highlighting the ...

Beeta Baghoolizadeh, a historian and associate research scholar at the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and ...

A self-guided walking tour in Wooster is shedding light on the city’s African American history, showing how the past is woven ...