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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guy ...

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 ...

Juneteenth recognizes one of the most important moments in United States history. Also known as Emancipation ... Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. Although Juneteenth has ...

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

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 ...