Nottoway plantation just burned down, so we decided to look into its history and other plantations where the most brutal ...

In 1857, an 18-year-old female slave, Lear Green, who had been repeatedly raped and forced into prostitution by her white ...

New York Life, whose predecessor, Nautilus Mutual Life Insurance, sold slave life insurance policies between 1846 and 1848, acknowledges its slavery connection on its website: “While we ...

Explore the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass, a leader in abolition whose words and actions shaped the fight for justice ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall called for an end to Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina. Here, he shares emails from ...

Lydia Mugambe's victim recalled how she was treated as "useless" and "worthless" while being forced to work for free as a ...

brings data to life with rich visualizations. A time-lapse animation tracks each of the individual voyages on a map of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. A pair of 18th-century French slaving ships ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Supporters of a measure to create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery in Maryland rallied by the governor's residence on Friday, calling on Gov. Wes Moore to ...