These people were designated as "house servants," and though their work appeared to be easier than that of the "field slaves," in some ways it was not. They were constantly under the scrutiny of ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

In recent years, genealogists looking into the ancestry of America’s first lady found Michelle Obama was the great-great-great granddaughter of an illiterate field slave from Georgia named ...