Much has been written about St. Louis’ slave history. The study of census tracts of the times notes the city’s rapid growth of Black slaves increased from 268 in 1799 to 2,656 by 1850. A mere 30 years ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent, ...

New Jersey residents might like to think that, as Northerners, we don't share the South's brutal slave history. We would be wrong. "New Jersey was known as the 'slave state of the North,' " said ...

At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...

Enslaved people helped build the foundation of CT. Get to know the lives they lived. Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Enslaved people helped build the foundation of much ...

THE time has come for some one to write the classical biography of Abraham Lincoln. All the essential materials for such a life are now in our possession. Memoirs and Reminiscences without number have ...

Some Democrats did want to expand slavery westward, while the Republican party opposed it at the time of its creation. But the division of the political parties wasn’t really the driver between who ...

Growing up, Dominique Williams visited her grandmother every weekend. And on each trip, she was greeted by a piece of her past, a name stitched in fabric, filled with centuries of legacy and mystery. ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Recent Baltimore protests over ...

Amid contentious national pushback over how much of the full history of slavery in the United States should be taught in schools, the holiday season represents a particularly overlooked period. Around ...

The Florida Board of Education set new social studies standards for middle schoolers July 19. In a section about the duties and trades performed by enslaved people, the state adopted a clarification ...