An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced ...

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Critics of the inmate firefighting program have long maintained that it is coercive — a form of servitude that is reminiscent of slavery. The parallel between inmate firefighting and slavery is ...

These patrols were similar to militias and were made up of white men who were obligated to serve for a set period. The patrols apprehended slaves outside of plantations, and they raided homes and ...

Edmonia G. Highgate lived only 26 years, but she lived long enough to have a remarkable impact on the education of Black ...

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. But when the kindness and ...

Sometimes good intentions can have terrible consequences. One of mankind’s most devastating diseases, Alzheimer’s, still has no cure. But in the science fiction universe of ‘The Planet of ...

A judge finds that Virginia law does not consider frozen embryos to be property that can be divided up in a partition lawsuit ...

Most of the slavery precedents concern how property rights were protected by the U.S. Constitution, which was written by wealthy property owners in an era when much of the young nation’s economy ...

A new exhibit at the shrine examines the slavery era. It’s titled “…That All Men Are Created Equal: Slavery in America.” The Lincoln Memorial Shrine was built in 1932 by a Redlands ...

Most of the slavery precedents concern how property rights were protected by the U.S. Constitution, which was written by wealthy property owners in an era when much of the young nation's economy ...