MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War. The Equal Justice Initiative, a ...

This is an opinion cartoon. “Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of ...

A group of current and former Alabama prisoners are alleging that the state's prison labor practices amount to a "modern-day form of slavery," according to a complaint filed in federal court this week ...

Slave trade outlawed, 1808-1821 -- Sporadic suppression : U.S. Navy anti-slave trade activities, 1822-1841 -- The scene is set : Webster-Ashburton and the U.S. Navy, 1840-1842 -- Capt. Matthew C.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Margaret Morgan, born into slavery in Maryland, had been living with her husband and their children in the free state of Pennsylvania for five years when hired slave ...