A new memorial in downtown Fredericksburg at the site of the city’s historic slave auction block will provide historical ...

To this day, America continues to grapple with the legacy of slavery. On this week’s episode, we explore the creation of slave patrols, which were created to control the movement of enslaved Black ...

U.S. Marshal Asa O. Butman arrived on a Saturday night in 1854 and left, according to abolitionist newspaper the Worcester ...

A retired educator compares unchecked ICE power to bounty hunters under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, warns of threats to civil liberties for all.

A US District Court has certified a class action for incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are forced to perform punitive farm labor under extreme, unconstitutional conditions.

Then, as now, out-of-state agents snatched people off the street. Then, as now, Illinoisans banded together to try to stop ...

In my childhood I knew a valuable slave, named Charity, and loved her, as all children did. Her young mistress married, and took her to Louisiana. Her little boy, James, was sold to a good sort of ...

The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...

A common argument in the dispute over official displays of the Confederate battle flag is that most people misunderstand the reasons behind the Civil War. It was not about slavery, these advocates say ...

In "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon & Schuster), author Ilyon Woo recounts a remarkable 19th century story of deception, in which a fair-skinned enslaved ...

In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey (known today as Benin) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter war on their neighbours, resulting in the capture of 10,000, including another ...