An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony.

It’s long past time Americans face the truth about the Founding Fathers. A critique that places events being celebrated on ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

The Georgian house was built in 1832 by John Treadwell Norton on land he inherited from his grandfather, former Connecticut ...

This Saturday (July 5), the Ashé Cultural Arts Center will lead a procession in remembrance of the horrors of the slave trade ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Inspired by his scholarship and teaching at Brown, Seth Rockman uncovered an unknown facet of pre-Civil War history that he ...

For much of the English-speaking world, the term “triangular trade” refers to one thing only: the transatlantic slave trade. Many school history books feature maps with arrows linking Europe ...

Slavery endures in a legal system that allows black voter suppression and housing restrictions and education policies that continue to make life harder for blacks than whites in America.

USS Constellation played key role in ending transatlantic slave trade Inner Harbor landmark docked in Baltimore played part in liberating slave captives Share Updated: 12:00 PM EST Feb 7, 2025 ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, deals in huge themes and vast numbers. Over four centuries ...