and the expansion of slavery in America’s southwest, Thoreau had stopped paying his taxes in 1842 and was later arrested in 1846. “If 1,000 men were not to pay their tax bills this year ...

Despite claims from progressive historians that US slavery was a natural outgrowth of a free market economy, the reality is ...

And one with a peculiarly Alabama cast. It’s important to remember that as our state leaders do all they can to obscure the past. I’m opening up “The Last Slave Ship” by Ben Raines ...

Slavery and racism casts a long shadow over the history of criminal justice in the US, and in particular the South, from the origins of many modern police departments in slave patrols, to the ...

Born Isaac Gaines on June 30, 1837, in part of the Lycoming County area that would eventually become Clinton County, Ike grew up in a community of fugitive slaves who settled in the region by way ...

A woman who claims to have been locked in a barn and kept as a sex slave for four years had all her teeth and lips removed in ‘cruel experiments by Poland’s Josef Fritzl’. The woman ...

There’s a traditional narrative about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were entirely shut out of the legal system, disenfranchised and bereft of even a modicum of ...

Residents of a mostly white Alabama town cited conspiracy theories spread by the Republican presidential ticket and ...

Brown emigrated to Jamaica and ran sugar plantations. He owned scores of slaves, some treated harshly. In an essay by Harris, published by the Jamaica Global Online website, the Stanford ...

The garden existed at a time when European empires and slavery were still expanding. Botanical gardens often were used for discovering new cash crops that could enrich colonial powers. But Custis ...