Thursday evening, three people walked into Kazoola's Eatery and Bar on Mobile's Dauphin Street.For the two women, one from ...

Slavery wasn’t limited to the American South. In the late 1730s, a young boy in Guinea was kidnapped and taken on a slave ship to New England. He grew up as an enslaved person but went on to buy his ...

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Packed with maritime and colonial history, Maryland’s capital city of Annapolis also offers tons of ways to get out on the ...

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

A slave who once couldn’t afford the $800 price to secure his family’s freedom, Robert Smalls went on to buy his former slave owner’s home after he risked everything to escape slavery.

The geographies of upward mobility show U.S. regions that emphasize investments in the common good over economic libertarianism do better ...

Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in ...

J. Hoberman’s teeming history of New York’s avant-garde scene is a fascinating trove of research and a thrilling clamor of ...

Juneteenth, celebrated every year on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

They were packed like cargo onto the slave ship the Morovia (or the York; accounts vary). Their fate was excruciatingly obvious, and the only answer was a rebellion.