National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

Brewster author, Michael Pregot's latest book "Slavery and Abolitionism on Cape Cod" is making the rounds and sparking ...

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

It is one of thousands of such heart-rending pleas that appeared in papers across the country, starting even before slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and continuing as late as the ...

For the first time during Black History Month, thousands of documents connected to slavery in Bibb County are available to ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

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 ...

The well-loved architectural feature is a staple of the American South, but its roots can be traced to Africa.