A letter from a former slave who lived on a Wilson County plantation in the mid-1800s offers a new look into how she adjusted ...

Historic Brattonsville in York County will host Black History Month events based on the life of an enslaved woman who lived ...

Outraged critics accused President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” on Friday after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia‘s Independence National Historical ...

Caroline Hixson's "incredible story offered readers a glimpse into a supposedly bygone world of slavers, enslaved peoples, overseers, and plantations." ...

Back at the old Whitehead Plantation slave and descendants cemetery, we return to the grave of Samantha Street, a woman born into slavery whose headstone is now more than 104 years old. Time, moisture ...

In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wi ...

Slavery is one of the most tragic realities of human history. It has led to conflicts, trauma, generational inequality, and more. Throughout the world, there have been many instances of societies ...

From the remnants of my great-grandparents’ Cuban home near the sugar plantation that is part of Unesco’s Slave Route programme – where they were once enslaved - to personal artefacts, each piece reco ...

A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and ...

The truth behind the myths America still protects.

In the old manorial pew of my church there are a number of striking memorials. One is to an unfortunate young member of the local gentry family, Jane Maria Pole, who died in Havana in 1837.

Residents and guests at the Covenant Living Holmstad in Batavia learned about “Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on ...