The Black Atlantic explores the truly global experiences that created the African American people.Beginning a full century before the first documented slaves arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, the ...

On display now at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is a special exhibit centered on a rare Bible from the 1800s that was used by British missionaries to convert and educate slaves.

Historians are hopeful that one of the four human skeletons recently found in the basement a Georgetown home could belong to one of the most famous slaves in the history of Washington, D.C.

For decades in the 19th century, thousands of escaped slaves sought freedom using the so-called Underground Railroad, trying to reach northern states and Canada. In Natick, Edward Walcott was a ...

As before, slaves were an integral part of this construct. The new republic emerged not so much a shining hope for all mankind as an independent rendition of Dixie.

Retropolis Gabriel’s revolt: In 1800, he was savvy, armed and determined to end slavery in Virginia’s capital. But on the day of the bold slave insurrection, disaster struck.

They are 54.2 miles south of Atlanta, the woman and the bridge, with a rust-colored creek whispering beneath them and birds singing in the trees overhead. She might be 50.