For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story ...

The legacy of slavery and the century of legalized exclusion and oppression that followed continues to affect Black Americans ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

Dave Drake, a 19th-century Edgefield County resident whose pottery is now on display in museums and private collections ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

A self-guided walking tour in Wooster is shedding light on the city’s African American history, showing how the past is woven ...

billed as “Uncle Sammy’s Reminiscences of Slavery Days.” The article included a drawing of his tidy two-story cottage, and of Anderson himself. It described him, at age 88, as “resembling ...

Why has slavery, the dehumanisation of Africans for three hundred years, remained a case of an African heritage? Why is the world not acknowledging the need to, first, have a day set aside to ...

“It’s like modern slavery,” Schröder said. “It’s modern slavery at the end of the day. Everybody can decide where you’re going, even if you have a contract. Yeah, of course, we make a lot of money, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Licenced as Creative Commons - attribution, no derivatives.

The Kings County Board of Supervisors has taken a decisive stand against human trafficking by unanimously adopting a resolution proclaiming January 2025 as National Slavery and Human ...

In 2025, just after a hellish, chaotic month, at Donald's urging, the Defense Department’s intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Women's History Month, ...