Is the person in that photo portrait a slave or not? The identities of two slave women featured in the exhibition have been ...

In 1640, the year Johnson purchased his first property, three servants fled a Virginia plantation. Caught and returned to their owner, two had their servitude extended four years. However, the third, ...

The roots of Irish and African solidarity can be traced to colonial times, when enslaved Africans and indentured Irish servants interacted on British-owned estates in North America. While historical ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will unveil “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World”—its first international touring exhibition—Dec. 13 ...

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 16: Henry Louis Gates Jr. attends the "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" screening at The Paris Theatre on October 16, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Michael ...

Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features. Broadside advertising a slave auction outside of ...

*In this opinion editorial, I introduce a new historical concept into the American educational vocabulary: the BBPWI, or Black-Built Predominantly White Institution. The BBPWI is not an official ...

The James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets is a trove of print on slavery, colonization, race, and politics in the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States. Concentrating on a ...

But as the country celebrates its 250th anniversary, there is a formidable hurdle: the Trump administration. The ...

In this book Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its demise nearly three hundred years later. Most ...

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, ...