It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

An expert on Caribbean studies and post-colonial literature, she loved teaching, mentoring and championing her students, ...

Many believe slavery never existed in Canada - but the truth is far more complicated. This video uncovers how slavery was ...

More than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery in America have been digitized and compiled for a collection that is now available online on the Library of Congress website. “Born in Slavery: Slave ...

Activists say there's more to be done about "exploitation" in prisons. Slavery was on some ballots this Election Day, and voters in several states on Tuesday were in favor of officially removing ...

Racism has existed across civilizations and throughout time, but in the United States it has specific ties to the institution of slavery. For hundreds of years, Black Africans and Americans were held ...

On Jan. 1, 1863, the president of the United States issued one of the most important executive orders in American history: Proclamation 95, more commonly known as the Emancipation Proclamation. Though ...

White is the author of Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President Abraham Lincoln wrote countless private notes for his eyes only—scribbled words to ...

"Punishing incarcerated people for refusing to work indeed violates the state constitution’s ban on involuntary servitude and ...

Four Kansas counties bear the names of leaders in the battle to preserve slavery while a Kansas school district has the name of a Ku Klux Klan leader.

This National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, my Administration renews our commitment to end the evil of human trafficking, restore law ...

It goes by many names. Whether you call it Emancipation Day, Freedom Day or the country's second Independence Day, Juneteenth is one of the most important anniversaries in our nation's history. On ...