The consequences of being caught in an attempted escape were so severe that most enslaved people never dared try. In Solomon ...

Enslaved people in Delaware and Kentucky were not freed until slavery was prohibited “within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction,” by the 13th Amendment when it was ...

Here are ten shocking facts about slavery and American descendants of chattel slavery who survived the unthinkable in the ...

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their ...

Southern states used racist laws, referred to as “Black codes,” to criminalize, imprison and re-enslave Black Americans over benign behavior. Today, prison labor is a multibillion-dollar practice.

Slavery outlawed in some, but not all, states where it was on the ballot Harlow Livingston votes at a church in Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday.

After nearly 157 years of slavery abolition in the United States, voters in five states where slavery is still legal as a punishment for convicted criminals will decide whether to outlaw the ...

NASHVILLE — More than 150 years after slaves were freed in the U.S., voters in five states will soon decide whether to close loopholes that led to the proliferation of a different form of ...

In 1860, a United States census counted nearly four million enslaved people living in the country. The Civil War was fought between abolitionists and the pro-slavery Confederacy, until the ...

In this brilliant new look at the destruction of slavery during the American Civil War, Oakes reveals how the U.S. abolitionist movement relied not only on high-minded moral suasion but also on the ...