Slavery was supposed to be abolished, yet millions are still trapped in forced labor across Africa today. From child labor in ...

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

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

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations advocates want to try again in 2026.

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Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

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

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.