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

It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent, ...

It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous ...

With the National Museum of Slavery, Angola has become a destination for descendants of enslaved people to reconnect.

Much has been written about St. Louis’ slave history. The study of census tracts of the times notes the city’s rapid growth of Black slaves increased from 268 in 1799 to 2,656 by 1850. A mere 30 years ...

At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...

Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...

New Jersey residents might like to think that, as Northerners, we don't share the South's brutal slave history. We would be wrong. "New Jersey was known as the 'slave state of the North,' " said ...

Amid contentious national pushback over how much of the full history of slavery in the United States should be taught in schools, the holiday season represents a particularly overlooked period. Around ...

THE time has come for some one to write the classical biography of Abraham Lincoln. All the essential materials for such a life are now in our possession. Memoirs and Reminiscences without number have ...

The bronze historical plaque will be installed at the site of a St. Louis slave prison once owned by Bernard M. Lynch, a ...