A new memorial in downtown Fredericksburg at the site of the city’s historic slave auction block will provide historical ...

A US District Court has certified a class action for incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are forced to perform punitive farm labor under extreme, unconstitutional conditions.

To this day, America continues to grapple with the legacy of slavery. On this week’s episode, we explore the creation of slave patrols, which were created to control the movement of enslaved Black ...

A forceful 19th-century essay on the rise of the slaveholding oligarchy asked: “Where will it end?” ...

U.S. Marshal Asa O. Butman arrived on a Saturday night in 1854 and left, according to abolitionist newspaper the Worcester ...

In my childhood I knew a valuable slave, named Charity, and loved her, as all children did. Her young mistress married, and took her to Louisiana. Her little boy, James, was sold to a good sort of ...

Then, as now, out-of-state agents snatched people off the street. Then, as now, Illinoisans banded together to try to stop ...

The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...

A common argument in the dispute over official displays of the Confederate battle flag is that most people misunderstand the reasons behind the Civil War. It was not about slavery, these advocates say ...

As America continues to observe Black History Month, it's hard to believe there are still people alive today who had a parent born into slavery. One of the few left is 89-year-old Daniel Smith, whose ...

In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey (known today as Benin) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter war on their neighbours, resulting in the capture of 10,000, including another ...