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

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

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

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.

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.

Juneteenth is a holiday to celebrate freedom and to remember the deep injustice of slavery. On June 19, 1865, the last enslaved people in the South were freed when Union troops marched into ...

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 ...

Amid a debate surrounding the Black Lives Matter protests in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the colony of NSW was founded on the basis there would be no slavery. RMIT ABC Fact ...