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

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations ...

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.

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

Census showing residents of Yonkers By Dennis Richmond Jr. A conversation about slavery is never easy. It is an open wound, a ...

Although it is hidden away, it represents a huge event in the radical history of Manchester — when thousands of workers supported an embargo of cotton during the US civil war, helping end slavery in ...

Section 25 of the Kentucky Constitution reads "Slavery and involuntary servitude in this State are forbidden, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” ...

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