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

Before continuing, it is important to pause a moment and state this directly: Donald Trump, the current president of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

White House gripes against Smithsonian come despite president’s past praise of museums like National Museum of African ...

United States President Donald Trump has said the nation’s Smithsonian museums only discuss “horrible” topics, including “how ...

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 ...

However, slavery was not abolished until 1837. In the United States, slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation Jan. 1, 1863, during the Civil War.

The remark, made as the president has ordered a wide-ranging review of museum exhibits, added to his pattern of minimizing Black history.

Bowe described a United States that doesn't collapse so much as come to resemble the Philippines: "One percent of the population will own 75 percent of the wealth, and 93 percent will live in ...