As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about ...

In this video I break down a question many people get wrong when did America actually abolish slavery. I walk through the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The idea of slavery in modern times is a foreign concept for most Westerners. Of course, the Black Lives Matter movement was built on the continuing problem of racism and the 1640 movement aimed to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Despite having had one of the largest slave trades in North America, Louisiana's most famous city has few ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jillian Michaels. (Photo credit: Getty Images) Nikole Hannah-Jones challenges Jillian Michaels' recent ...

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, ...