A scroll where Baptist ministers took an early stand against slavery has been rediscovered in Groton, Massachusetts. The ...

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US President Donald Trump has praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai for speaking "good English" and asked him where he ...

Florida’s attempt to whitewash the history of slavery by nixing an AP African American Studies course is indefensible. But conservatives are right that the United States is far from exceptional ...

Slavery was actually a more gender-egalitarian institution than other forms of property or wealth accumulation, so it’s not surprising that white women would have a vested interest in it.

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

Harvard University reached a settlement Wednesday with the descendants of enslaved people who had their photos taken by a university professor back in the 1800s. Tamara Lanier, the great-great-great ...

American slavery was horrible—and far from unique. Our culture would be healthier if we learned about that.

An MSNBC "expert" claims "American slavery was worse because slaves were treated as property." "That's complete nonsense," replies political science professor Wilfred Reilly in my new video ...

Penningroth makes clear that although slaves obviously did not have equal protections under the law, the needs of slave owners and the regular interactions between slaves required legal relationships.

The ‘white feminism’ of American slavery Historians have also started grappling with the ways American slavery was uniquely gender-egalitarian – at least for white women.