“My 8-year-old daughter was like, ‘Dad, it means a lot to be a black doctor in America ... the three photos. In the first, the students stood staggered in front of the former slave quarters ...

Tobacco, cotton, coffee, rice and sugar plantation owners needed cheap labor and the slave traders eagerly complied, transporting more than 12 million Africans to America. This transatlantic trade ...

All of these approaches misrepresent the liaison between the Founding Father and his female possession because they ignore the sexual exploitation and family losses inscribed across the Hemings family ...

Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this ...

Previously, African-American slaves had been subjected to the punishments at the hands of their owners. With government ineffectiveness and an increase in both white and black lawlessness ...

(credit: RISCHGITZ/GETTY IMAGES) There are many parallels between America’s slave era and these horrifying Hamas happenings. The most obvious is race – slavery was a crime perpetrated by ...

An academic is hunting for the first photo in England of a famed anti-slavery campaigner. Frederick Douglass, a former slave, ...