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 ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

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 ...

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

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021, when President Joe Biden signed it into law. The bill passed with near ...

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to explore a shipwreck, pilot a remotely operated vehicle or touch artifacts that ...

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

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.

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.

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

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

It was unfortunately too true that the slave trade was extensively carried on in Cuba, between 30,000 and 40,000 slaves being annually imported into the Island.