As the anniversary of 1776 draws near, get ready for a resurgence of the New York Times’s false history.

In the United States, power often comes down to documentation. For centuries, those in power have used documents to police ...

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

More than 150 years after it was officially outlawed in the U.S., slavery will be on the November ballot in five states, including Oregon. Here's why.

One reaction to criticism about new Florida standards: Nobody is saying slavery was good. Maybe not. But in the past, that's exactly what was said.

The suit alleges a U.S. arm of Taiwanese chemical giant Formosa Plastics has hindered access to an unmarked cemetery with ...

Born under the shackles of slavery, Harriet Tubman refused to accept a life where she wasn't free. Even after escaping, she returned to the South 13 times to personally guide 70 other slaves to ...

12 Years a Slave, which was shot in four historic Louisiana plantations and around New Orleans, employed several locals for ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Slavery became illegal when the 13th Amendment was adopted in 1865, but Prigg has been most often cited in the decades thereafter, mostly in cases involving property law, as guidance regarding the ...

The Castle will host a cemetery tour at the Harmar Cemetery at 10 a.m. July 26. The cemetery is located at 129 Wood St. in ...

The Times contends in their 1619 Project that the true founding of our nation is not 1776, but when the first slave arrived ...