A Treasury official said the Biden administration was focused on "DEI and Critical Race Theory policies" rather than ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...

President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate-held ...

A monument honoring the abolition of slavery was dedicated on Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia, just two miles from where a hulking statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once prominently stood.

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...

On 1865, America abolished slavery, as it adopted the 13th Amendment into the constitution. The decision came 246 years after ...

ELMINA, Ghana (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Africans marked the anniversary on Sunday with a sombre ceremony recalling the suffering of their ancestors ...

July 4 is an appropriate time to remember Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" The speech is - for good reason - most famous for its powerful condemnation ...

Near the end of his first term in 2021, Trump signed a law authorizing up to five new quarters and a dollar coin for the 250th celebration in 2026. The statute mandated that coins be “emblematic” of ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

(WHTM) Pennsylvania had slaves before Pennsylvania was even Pennsylvania. Dutch and Swedish settlers in the Delaware Valley held Africans as slaves. When William Penn and the Society of Friends ...