The exhibit uses a widely circulated 18th century illustration, “Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brooks Under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1778,” which documented the brutal packing of enslaved ...

ICE raids compared to to modern-day slave patrols, highlighting similarities in racial profiling and disregard for constitutional rights.

Nearly nine months before U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Emancipation Proclamation calling for the end of slavery, the District of Columbia outlawed the slavery and paid reparations to ...

A US District Court has certified a class action for incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are forced to perform punitive ...

HENDERSON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Following through on a promise to build his grandchildren a space to play, Kenneth Spellman discovered his newly purchased property held priceless stories of North Carolina's ...

Archaeologists believe that plantation slavery may have taken root on a 16th-century sugar estate on the tiny African island of São Tomé. The two volcanic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were ...

NEW ORLEANS – Thousands of tourists stream into the French Quarter each year through beautiful Esplanade Avenue, an oak tree-studded stretch known for its Creole cottages. The tremendous trees are a ...

William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American ex-slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek ...

The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Marking a difficult time in the United States' history. Friday, Charleston leaders unveiled two new signs to describe and acknowledge the history of the Slave Trade in ...

The Alexandria slave trading facility once occupied by Franklin and Armfield, as it appeared after its liberation by Union forces during the Civil War. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs ...