Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

“…one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Of course, we understand that in 1775, at the time ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the institution of slavery was being threatened, ... Livingston observes that the same ...

Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved ...

Descendants of slave owners and those of enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat around the same table at the United Nations headquarters in New York last week to discuss ...

For the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat at the same table with diplomats and experts from those nations discussing the co… ...

They spoke at a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York this past week where, for the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat ...

Meanwhile, Southern enslavers who sought to replenish their enslaved laborers before the closure of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in 1808 saw their investment pay off when the cotton economy ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor helped kick-start the southern colonies' embrace of the radical cause ...

Although a fairly new term, freedom colonies refer to the settlements African American slaves in Texas founded after Juneteenth, when the last slaves in the South were set free after the ...

The northern colonies and non-Southern states were more diverse and included many anti-slavery residents. The Southern states were dominated by “a large plantation economy and white Protestants,” who ...

Indeed, Buckley argued, the practice delayed the abolition of slavery in Britain and its colonies. Soldiers from a West India Regiment in their camp in France during World War I Public domain via ...