Although owning slaves has long been outlawed in the U.S., modern-day slavery, or human trafficking, still exists globally. The U.S. State Department estimates that thousands are exploited for sex ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...

Slave laws protected the rights of enslavers to own and sell Black people, which involved exerting control over reproduction. For example, a 1662 law in Virginia made slavery inheritable through ...

The suit alleges a U.S. arm of Taiwanese chemical giant Formosa Plastics has hindered access to an unmarked cemetery with ...

The South took a similar but divergent path towards firefighting — one guided by its practice of slavery. Southern cities also had white volunteer corps, but Black labor was integral to their ...

Though her grandfather spent years in slavery before dying free, and her 92-year-old father is so horrified by the subject that he won’t discuss it, Mable Willett has not let bitterness dim her ...

Slavery-era embroidery excites historians, evokes heartbreak of its time Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY It is a cotton sack with a story so poignant it is drawing in followers from across the country.

I Mortally hate logs & Chains, tho I live in the Midst of Slaves & Slavery.” It was nearly four decades after that when Britain finally abolished the slave trade, which did more than anything ...

Sexual liaisons between mixed-race couples during the slavery era form the centerpiece of 'Slave Play,' a provocative world-premiere satirical work from award-winning young playwright Jeremy O.