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 ...

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.

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 ...

In ”Last Seen,” historian Judith Giesberg explores how formerly enslaved people tried to reunite with their lost loved ones ...

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.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services said the grant highlighting Black history and culture “no longer serves the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Journal of Negro History Vol. 8, No. 3, Jul., 1923 Negro Servitude in the United States: Se... Negro Servitude in the United States: Servitude ...

Today, this question bitterly divides the Jewish people. But it is not the first time it has done so. Passover begins this ...

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 ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.