Tuscaloosa County neighbors the Black Belt, where slaves toiled in the dark, fertile soil from which the region gets its name. Green’s research reveals the University of Alabama spent nearly ...

For generations of African-Americans, the gravestone of the last African slave to have lived in the United States has long stood on Alabama’s Gulf Coast as a remarkable symbol of hope and change.

Alabama and 3 other states passed anti-slavery laws in election. ... Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, ... Those states are Rhode Island in 1842, ...

In Montgomery, Alabama, a long-neglected plot of land, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, has been transformed into the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park – 17 acres filled with ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

Hari Sreenivasan: Last weekend in Mobile, Alabama, there was a family reunion of sorts. Many of the people there were descendants of West Africans who were sold into slavery and forced to come to ...

But we can finally, officially celebrate the end of slavery in Alabama on our newest state holiday. Happy Juneteenth. It’s been a long time coming.

The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park contains art and historic exhibits. The park in Montgomery, Alabama, was created to with the aim of honestly confronting the history of slavery.

On Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, current and former inmates announced a lawsuit challenging Alabama's prison labor program as a type of “modern day slavery." Dave Martin / AP Dec. 16, 2023, 6:00 AM EST ...

Last known slave ship to arrive in U.S. discovered in Alabama 00:44. Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama's Gulf Coast ...

Alabama sculpture park evokes history of slavery 05:45. In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed.