At night, I lie awake thinking about someone I do not know. During the day, I comb through online archives and newspapers, trying to find her. Her name was Cretia, and she was a 14-year-old enslaved ...

June 19 (UPI) --Juneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000 slaves in Texas were granted their freedom following the Civil War. President Joe ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas, “filled with Biblical and historical images, with many ...

The Whitney Plantation stands as a profound monument to the history of slavery in the Southern United States. Located in ...

"A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery ...

The end of slavery was not solely brought about by the Civil War in the U.S., but also by centuries of resistance across the ...

W hat does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence. But what counts as evidence, and who has the authority to make those determinations? In part because ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook. As we previously reported, this claim ...

On Tuesday, President Trump attacked the narrative long taught in US schools and documented in museums, about the abhorrent, centuries-long practice of slavery. He focused on The Smithsonian ...