The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed.

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 ...

W hat does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence. But what counts as evidence, and who has the authority to make those determinations? In part because ...

John Carter Brown Library Director Karin Wulf reflected on her work at a Tuesday book launch event hosted by the Department ...

As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about the country’s history. One enduring myth is that slavery was a largely male ...

LOS ANGELES --The names Colonel Tye, Robert Smalls and Harriet Jacobs aren't as familiar as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Betsy Ross, but they, too, are the forefathers and foremothers of ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a White man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line ...

“W hen shall we hear the joyfull sound … that slavery is no more?” So asked Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man whose life in New ...

A National Museum of African American History and Culture Exhibition frames the history of slavery in a global context Abigail Pocasangre & Julia Ross Artist Daniel Minter created this installation ...

In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling denied Black citizenship, upheld slavery, and stands as one of the Court's ...