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

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

Officials plan to purposefully sink the passenger ship off the coast of Florida, where it will become the world's largest ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Temu and Shein should be restricted from the U.S. market. Their supplies chains are highly likely to be engaged in slave ...

Henry Brown escapes slavery by mailing himself in a small wooden box to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In ...

Discover how African Americans have contributed to the U.S. economy, despite historical inequalities. Explore the impact of ...

Residents were given an opportunity to learn about their city’s role in the history of slavery in the United States, viewing ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.