A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to explore a shipwreck, the Intrepid Museum has a new exhibition you’ll want to plunge ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

It's rare, but hikers do sometimes find treasure. This mouthwatering list of undiscovered fortunes will turn your camping ...

Examines the build-up to the Civil War: slavery, the Missouri Compromise, abolitionism, and key events like the Dred Scott decision and the election of Lincoln led to secession.

The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed. A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a ...

If this picture of the relations of slave-masters with their slaves could receive any further darkness, it would be by introducing the figures of the congenial agents through which the barbarism ...

According to census records, the number of slaves in America went from 894,452 in 1800 to 3,953,587 in 1860.

Free blacks also were lighter in color (40.8 percent of Southern free blacks in 1860 reported mixed racial ancestry versus 10.4 percent of slaves); not surprisingly, slaves with their master’s ...

The shadowy, pro-slavery politicians who held the United States hostage in the name of expanding slavery’s influence became known as “Slave Power.” And by 1860, the Slave Power cast a shadow over ...

The shadowy, pro-slavery politicians who held the United States hostage in the name of expanding slavery’s influence became known as “Slave Power.” And by 1860, the Slave Power cast a shadow ...

Price Birch & Co., dealers in slaves storefront in Alexandria, Virginia, during the U.S. Civil War circa 1861. Several states have introduced legislation for reparations for descendants of slaves.