Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

The dismantling of USAID by Elon Musk's DOGE and a State Department funding freeze have severely disrupted efforts to help ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

the memory of slavery in New York was being erased. In 1946, when The Eagle published a photographic feature about the surviving houses of Brooklyn’s old Dutch families, including the Lotts ...

Three Muslims in Pakistan abducted a 12-year-old Christian girl at gunpoint from her home and have threatened to sell her into sexual slavery, her parents said ...

A Swedish court has sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

who may not be aware of the horrendous things that happened during slavery," she said. Maria Castillo and her 3-year-old daughter were in town and visiting the museum. "It's very informative ...

A 25-year-old man named Sengbe Pieh led the ... of these portraits are now on display, “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World,” at the Smithsonian National Museum of African ...

Promised high-paying jobs, they were imprisoned in high-rises, forced to take on fake identities and dupe their victims.