Amid the brutal treatment and trauma, love still blossomed between Eliza Randolph and Miles Green. By Rachel L. Swarns [This article is also a weekly newsletter. Sign up for Race/Related here.] The ...

Lenikpo Yeo, also known as Le Gros, which means ‘The Big Man,’ carries a gun while walking with his own children and nephews, who are carrying lumber back to the farm house, on Le Gros’ farm near ...

“Until the pictures of the slave’s sufferings were drawn up and held up to public gaze, no Northerner had any idea of the cruelty of the system,” abolitionist Angelina Grimké wrote in her famous “ ...

Rather than write a column for this Independence Day weekend edition of the newsletter, I decided to chat with Zaakir Tameez, a recent graduate of Yale Law School, about his new biography of Charles ...

This is the second episode in an occasional series examining major counterfactual questions in history. The first episode asked whether President John F. Kennedy would have withdrawn the U.S. from ...

Leading anti-slavery organisations have told Byline Times that the new measures could allow trafficking and forced labour to thrive ...

The new play “By the River Rivanna” is a tale of two interracial relationships. In the year 1850, a white male slave owner and an enslaved Black man, both raised on the fictional Hope Plantation, hide ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of ...

At first it looks like wallpaper. On second glance, you see the imprints of hands, stamped in red paint and climbing up the ...

The idea that slavery existed in past centuries is disturbing enough. To think that it still exists somewhere in the world is even more troubling. But it does go on today in northwestern Africa and ...

Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier on Thursday compared Texas Democrats intentionally fleeing a redistricting vote to escaping slavery and the Holocaust. Collier claimed that she and other ...

Aldis Hodge and Jurnee Smollett-Bell in “Underground” (Premieres March 9 on WGN) *In March, actor Aldis Hodge premieres in WGN’s ambitious new series “Underground,” which follows a group of slaves who ...