Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. In the Colonies, slavery and resistance were restless bedfellows, as evidenced by several large-scale ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the institution of slavery was being threatened, ...

Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved ...

Descendants of slave owners and slaves in former British colonies attend a meeting at U.N. headquarters moderated by Laura Trevelyan (AP) ...

This undated photo provided by Gabrielle Blackwood shows moderator Laura Trevelyan during a meeting of descendants of slave owners and slaves in former British colonies in the Caribbean at U.N ...

For the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat at the same table with diplomats and experts from those nations discussing the ...

Dive Into the Deeper Story of the American Revolution on How New England and Virginia United Against the British Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight to enslavement even as they perpetuated it.

Although a fairly new term, freedom colonies refer to the settlements African American slaves in Texas founded after Juneteenth, when the last slaves in the South were set free after the ...