An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms of an 1838 slave sale.

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

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

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

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 ...

Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...

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

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

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 ...

Ellis’ dream of wresting power from the emperor was but one small moment in his boundary-breaking life. Eulogized as a ...

Parys Mountain is an astonishing landscape on a beautiful UK island that was carved by one of Britain's richest men ...