“Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year’s Day the worst of any,” a slave named Lewis Clarke said in an 1842 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adolphe Duperly's painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832.

The museum at the Penn Center on St. Helena Island. Photo by Andy Brack. EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s a 2023 commentary from the archives that gives context to Juneteenth. An old African adage warns: “Until ...

He was buried in a white cemetery. She was buried in a black cemetery. Their marriage was unheard-of at the time. Both William Ramey and his wife, Kittie Simkins, were born and raised in Edgefield, ...

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 ...

We are fortunate to have family photos that are over 120 years old. I have a portrait of my great-great-grandmother that was taken when she was a slave. Ironically, she was allowed to wear a nice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sex trafficking, like forced labor, is a contemporary form of slavery. I am an academic who studies the mindset of slaveholders to ...

Activist Kevin Bales is continuing his long fight against human trafficking and contemporary slavery. Bales talks about his new book, Ending Slavery, which presents a plan to rid the world of human ...

Ana Lucia Araujo receives funding from American Council of Learned Societies. During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved men, women and children also enjoyed the holidays. Slave owners ...