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 ...

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 ...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a ...

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 ...

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

So in 2016, when Maddox learned not only that the Catholic church had held slaves, but that her ancestors had been among them, it prompted a crisis of faith. To see her great-great-grandfather ...

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 ...