Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means.

But while the report acknowledges many real and worrying problems, it continues to ignore the elephant in the room. Power ...

Take away its legal sanction and subsidy, and the institution’s entire economic edifice crumbles.

Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains how examining plantation records and market prices deepens our understanding of a ...

As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about the country’s history. One enduring myth is that slavery was a largely male ...

Juneteenth is a sacred celebration of the end of slavery. But true economic justice is the unfinished business of civil ...

History Slavery Myths Debunked The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than Northern factory workers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and other lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies.

Inspired by his scholarship and teaching at Brown, Seth Rockman uncovered an unknown facet of pre-Civil War history that he ...

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...

While state legislation on reparations remains stalled, the NJISJ-led council of experts has completed its investigation into ...

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

After more than three years of research, Fulton County is approaching a historic decision: whether to offer reparations to ...