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

It’s long past time Americans face the truth about the Founding Fathers. A critique that places events being celebrated on ...

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 ...

Most important, slavery was abolished in the six northern and middle colonies, thus establishing the solid nonslave area that was to serve as the base for the later assault on southern slavery. An ...

They spoke at a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York this past week where, for the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat at ...

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 ...