The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

After stumbling upon her rich family history, the Fort Worth woman made it her mission to save a historic freedom colony in ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

And then there was Abby Fisher, who was born into slavery and later worked as a cook in Alabama and California before ...

But if the Federal Government is to spend money at all in this matter, it should be done to ameliorate, rather than to abolish, the Slavery of the Southern States. Suppose the Government were to ...

MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd, Thursday on "The ReidOut," compared Trump voters to poor white people who sided with slave owners during the Civil War against their own economic interests ...

Lisa Cericola has been on staff at Southern Living since 2015 ... The site, which documents the legacy of slavery in America, uses first-person narratives, art, educational exhibits, and interactive ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Joe Huff, left, and Kenny Braden with “The Yard Barber” work to clear snow from the driveway of a home ...

now a city in southern Benin. Their so-called “death march” was the first leg of a long and merciless sojourn. Once they arrived in Ouidah, slaves would be held in “barracoons ...

An assignment given to sixth grade social studies students at Nitschmann Middle School asking what they would do in scenarios that involved slavery was “inappropriate” and “completely ...