On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms of an 1838 slave sale.

The legacy of slavery and the century of legalized exclusion and oppression that followed continues to affect Black Americans ...

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, as many as a thousand slave ships carrying captive Africans sank while crossing the ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...