The election of 1860 was one of the most fractured in American history ... within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The monstrous institution of slavery was ...

This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or ...

The story of Northern slavery in the United States has been locked away, erased. We didn't learn it in history class. But it happened. Slavery existed in towns across early Connecticut.

Making Black Freedom in the World" uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the struggle for justice.

McGill’s mission: to sleep in every former slave dwelling still standing in the United States. Tonight’s stay ... to save slave dwellings and the history they hold before it’s too late.

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

Most retellings of Black history in the United States start with Britain’s city ... modern grappling with the nation’s original sin of slavery. However, as far too few historians have noted ...

On January 1, 1808 the first great goal of the anti-slavery effort in the United States was achieved: Congress banned international slave trade. Despite the passing of the bill the lucrative trade ...

"When we see efforts to erase our history...it's actually going to make us weaker [and] less informed," said Alan Spear tells ...

In the early decades of the Republic, the United States Congress was a deeply flawed institution. In the famous compromise known as the three-fifths rule, the Constitution had allowed slave states ...

Slavery in the United States depended on segregationist ideology and white ... back to the sexual violation of enslaved women and girls that began early in our history as a nation, and the ...