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

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

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

Divides persist between many Black and white Americans’ views on the ongoing impacts of slavery in the United States.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak ... with ties to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth once claimed slavery promoted “affection between the races” in the South.

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

The Associated Press  Michigan State University Associate Professor of Law Justin Simard poses in the School of Law Moot ...

By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri requested to become a new state, one which allowed slavery. The North ...

Horace King, a former slave, was a renowned bridge builder and architect in the American South during the 19th century. King ...