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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the ...

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

In Britain, right-wing populist Nigel Farage said Prime Minister Keir Starmer would be "weak" if he engaged in talks on the issue. In France, where the far-right is on the rise, President Emmanuel ...

In 2023, the Home Office – Britain's interior ministry - identified around 17,000 people as potential victims of modern ...