The anti-slavery disunionists and the abolitionists were some of the most critical of slavery and the most serious about ...

Much of the power of the Declaration of Independence rests on Thomas Jefferson’s opening line: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch ...

Why does American society remain so deeply implicated in the enslavement of Black Americans? Slavery was never abolished in the United States, and today it enjoys widespread support among both ...

Although the importation of slaves was outlawed in 1807, the domestic slave trade remained a major economic establishment in America until the Civil War. Before its retrocession to Virginia, the city ...

Among the dark legacies of slavery in America was the sundering of black families: men sold to fuel the Deep South’s burgeoning cotton economy, children wrenched away from parents to settle debts, ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Egypt Lloyd learned she was a direct descendant of Tony, Cuba and Darby Vassall – people enslaved by Harvard University ...

In the essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms,” Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America. By Zaakir Tameez Zaakir Tameez is a legal scholar of the ...

Sometime around 1860, Spaniards attacked a Navajo settlement in New Mexico and captured a woman named Ated-bah-Hohzoni, meaning “happy girl.” As she hid behind a cliff with her one-year-old daughter, ...

Anne Arundel County held A Day of Acknowledgement: Confronting the Legacy of Slavery event, at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, which included an apology from County Executive Steuart Pittman ...