Until its discovery in May at the archives in Groton, Massachusetts, American Baptist officials worried the anti-slavery ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group has filed lawsuits against a state park over an exhibit on slavery, segregation, ...

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

Take away its legal sanction and subsidy, and the institution’s entire economic edifice crumbles.

As the civil rights movement intensified in the 1960s, the textbooks began to draw heavy criticism, largely for their depictions of slaves and post-Civil War African-Americans. Among other things ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.

Importing slaves into the United States had been illegal since 1808, and southern plantation owners had seen prices in the domestic slave trade skyrocket. Many, including Meaher, were advocating ...