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

Temu and Shein should be restricted from the U.S. market. Their supplies chains are highly likely to be engaged in slave ...

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

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Residents were given an opportunity to learn about their city’s role in the history of slavery in the United States, viewing ...

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

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

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

Discover how African Americans have contributed to the U.S. economy, despite historical inequalities. Explore the impact of ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

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 ...