Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MARK FELIX/Getty Images At night, I lie awake thinking about someone I do not know. During the day, I comb through online archives ...

Mississippi's own documents from 1861 show the state seceded from the Union to protect slavery, not states' rights. Where did ...

The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch ...

Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland -- Free trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade? -- Revolt! Africans conspire with the French and Spanish ...

Prologue: A house divided -- Introduction: The slave power -- Section 1: The age of revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United ...

President Donald Trump‘s latest remark about slavery has put renewed scrutiny on the Smithsonian museums, which are currently under internal review by the White House to “remove divisive or partisan ...

Among slave-trading states and recipients of African slaves, slavery was legally abolished in Saudi Arabia and Yemen only in ...

Here are ten shocking facts about slavery and American descendants of chattel slavery who survived the unthinkable in the United States. Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in ...