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

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

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 ...

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

We often associate slavery with non-Christians and the Romans, but unfree people continued to be owned and exploited throughout Europe for hundreds of years after the fall of the Empire.

How did Sarah Forbes Bonetta escape slavery in Africa, reach England and become a beloved goddaughter of Queen Victoria?

Preachers like John Marrant proclaimed the gospel across cultures. But the persistence—and defense—of slavery challenged ...

The transpacific slave trade, on the other hand ... Later, in Manila, a young Spaniard stabbed and beat her within an inch of ...