An overview of how Bermuda’s early colonial government drew up the legislative basis for enslavement on the island has been ...

United States President Donald Trump has suggested that the 14th Amendment right to American citizenship never ... with granting citizenship to former slaves. The President stated this in a ...

A review of history indicates a strong case—but mixed public support Shomari Wills is an Emmy Award winner and author of Black Fortunes, which chronicles the lives of America's untold Black ...

and by the early 1700s were known to rely on forced labor. All Catholic religious orders operating in the American South had slaves, often received as gifts from benefactors to offer financial ...

Early styles of tapping called for hard-soled ... “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.” “I can truly say, I have spent some of the happiest moments of my life ...

Gerald Norwood's curiosity to learn his family's history led to a lifelong hobby of collecting and sharing historical Black ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

In the heart of what was once Britain's largest colony in the New World, a "secret" church reveals how Black people lived and ...

A guide to meaningful travel experiences that connect visitors with African American history, art, and traditions across the nation.

Former slave Frederick Douglass wrote the Narrative of the Life of an American Slave ... Box Brown and the abolitionists parted ways early into his 25 years in England, so he took charge of ...

In the late 1600s, Tituba, an enslaved Indigenous woman of probable Central American background purchased ... Spain made moves to prohibit Indigenous slavery as early as 1542, Reséndez said.