American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World ...

Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...

Enslaved people helped build the foundation of CT. Get to know the lives they lived. Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Enslaved people helped build the foundation of much ...

Laws enacted during the U.S. slavery era are still being used by lawyers and judges in today's courtrooms. Getty Images As the story of Juneteenth is told by modern-day historians, enslaved Black ...

Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...

Montgomery shows what’s possible when museums aren’t subject to capricious executive orders.

I have a message for President Trump, his administration, and anyone who hopes the world will forget the history of slavery in this country.

As Juneteenth rolls around, many Americans are celebrating the ending of slavery in the United States — and some for the first time. The annual celebration has been a long-standing tradition in Black ...