Arguing a case involving a slave revolt at sea early in his career, Benjamin echoed Shylock’s famous speech in Shakespeare’s ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

Because American slavery wasn’t only practiced on vast plantations or sprawling fields out of view from most eyes, the way our nation often depicts the 246 years it was legal to own people. Slavery ...

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

A woman from Senegal described what’s at stake as the Trump administration targets immigrants for deportation. “We are not criminals,” the woman said. “We are not bad people.” ...

Edmonia G. Highgate lived only 26 years, but she lived long enough to have a remarkable impact on the education of Black ...

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president ... of emancipation from the general court to slave owners. He stated that the House of Burgesses ...

Students at Michigan State University's law school have found that slavery is still baked into American jurisprudence.

Historian Judith Giesberg, author of "Last Seen," and genealogist Adrienne Whaley on the families ripped apart by slavery and the search to find their loved ones.

Let us help you.” The two sides engaged in dialogue ... it offers up to $10,000 in educational assistance to descendants of Jesuit slavery; that program has awarded more than $166,000 in ...

An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced ...

Lawyers representing four Indonesian fishermen say they were beaten and trapped on vessels that were part of the global ...