Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

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

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.

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

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

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

She was only 19 years old when she was sentenced to death for killing her slave master, Robert Newsom, six miles south of ...

“If slavery studies typically look at it from the enslavers’ side, they’ve pushed us to think about it in ... regional tribal members, and their first-person testimonies, assures the Stolen ...

When you think about Black History Month, several figures likely come to mind, with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass ...

Wall Street is known for its stock trades, but 300 years ago it was the site of a very different kind of investment.

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

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