The history we learned in school often painted enslavement as a system people endured passively, waiting for abolition to ...

Much has been written about St. Louis’ slave history. The study of census tracts of the times notes the city’s rapid growth of Black slaves increased from 268 in 1799 to 2,656 by 1850. A mere 30 years ...

Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...

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COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark history, from being chained, whipped, raped, and ...

It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent, ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Recent Baltimore protests over ...

Growing up, Dominique Williams visited her grandmother every weekend. And on each trip, she was greeted by a piece of her past, a name stitched in fabric, filled with centuries of legacy and mystery. ...

I have a message for President Donald Trump, his administration and anyone who hopes the world will forget what happened in this country. Slavery in the United States was a brutal and dehumanizing ...

PROVIDENCE – The colonial history of Providence is one intertwined with slavery. But much of the time, only the names of the slave owners, the rich white men, make it into history books and the ...