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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Juneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000 slaves in Texas were granted their freedom following the Civil War.

The man who holds his fellow-man in slavery, treats him as a chattel, breeds from him with as little regard for marriage ties as if he were an animal, is a moral outlaw; society may find, or fancy ...

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.

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