The federal government uploaded digital renderings of 11 new panels that it was preparing to display at the President's House ...

John Stossel reports on the historical context of slavery in the U.S. with Wilfred Reilly, a politicial science professor and author of "Lies My Liberal Teach Told Me." "The original sin of slavery." ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler See more of our coverage in your ...

W hat does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence. But what counts as evidence, and who has the authority to make those determinations? In part because ...

“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be straightforward.

In 1857, an 18-year-old female slave, Lear Green, who had been repeatedly raped and forced into prostitution by her white owner, one James Noble, was surreptitiously placed in a wooden seaman’s chest ...

Today people are taught, when it comes to slavery, America was the worst. Sen. Tim Kaine (D–Va.) actually said, "The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody; we created it." An MSNBC "expert ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...