RALEIGH N.C., April 23 -- A renegade census taker charged with recording the population of a tiny northeastern North Carolina county in 1860 left behind a record of slave names that is the only such ...

A new Netflix documentary follows the descendants of survivors of the last recorded vessel to bring slaves to the US, also focusing on the role of Irish-American slave owner Timothy Meagher in the ...

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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Descendants of the last African people abducted into slavery and brought to America’s shores gathered over the weekend on the banks of an Alabama river to pay tribute to their ...

More than 400 years have passed since chattel slavery was deemed a respectable and integral part of the American economy and policy. Still, there are folks who try to rewrite history and “whitewash” ...

Under the Trump administration, National Parks are being forced to remove anything that casts a negative light on America.

Though the Civil War was over 150 years ago, the social fabric of the United States still suffers from the country’s former divisions. Cultural and political values are split between the so-called ...

AfricaTown holds great historical significance as one of the nation’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. It’s credited as being one of the first places where freed slaves from Africa settled in ...

It felt like a kick in the stomach. Exploring an ancestry website, I discovered an 1860 Slave Schedule showing that my great-great-grandfather, William Henry Robertson of Mason County, Kentucky, owned ...