The Underground Railroad was known for helping many enslaved people escape to freedom. It consisted of a network of people ...

According to the Columbus State University archives, by 1860, 37% of the city’s population was enslaved. Several slaves are buried in The Porterdale Cemetery located on the corner of 10th Ave. and ...

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

Those who take this backroad in New Smyrna Beach are likely to see an eerie surprise: a gravesite embedded in the middle of ...

In a few ways, Iowa has been more progressive than the rest of the country when it comes to providing equity to Black ...

The Senate had passed the Amendment on April 8, 1864. Ganson, who was born in Le Roy, represented the 30th Congressional ...

Indictment Accuses White Couple of Forcing Adopted Black Children to Work as 'Slaves,' Says Judge Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for PEOPLE 's free True Crime newsletter ...

The cotton boom created a demand for labor to work on cotton farms, which cotton growers met by purchasing slaves. According to census records, the number of slaves in America went from 894,452 in ...

He also had slaves, as the slave registries of 1850 and 1860 reflect. "On slave registries, no names are listed, just age, sex and race. ... By finding these names, we are releasing them to give ...

In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.

Two teenage girls were treated as "sex slaves" by a gang of Asian men from Rochdale who "abused, degraded and then discarded" them over a five-year period, a court has heard. Eight men have gone ...