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

Trump made the remarks at a White House meeting with the leaders of several African nations. Many Liberians are the ...

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 ...

BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part ...

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.

The chapters, divided chronologically, address broad themes and motifs, including patriotic cakes, early American meals for each of the four seasons, traditional dishes of American slaves, Civil War ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history.

Firsthand accounts of slavery in the US are extremely rare. But this American academic made a remarkable discovery in an online Australian database.

BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part ...

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.