Advocates, historians, and descendants of enslaved people are planning to join a 60-mile walk in Texas to bring attention to ...

Mass surveillance is the widespread monitoring of civilians. Governments typically target specific groups – such as religious minorities, certain races or ethnicities, or migrants – for surveillance ...

This new law posed the greatest obstacle yet to Boston’s abolition movement, pitting it against emboldened slave owners and the federal government. The West End Museum’s new special exhibit, “An ...

An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Ellis’ dream of wresting power from the emperor was but one small moment in his boundary-breaking life. Eulogized as a ...

While Indigenous slaves were put to work in a variety of ... In 1865, for instance, a state-ordered tally of enslaved Indigenous people in Southern Colorado counted 149 people, with 100 of them ...

George Duffy, she found out, had been born in slavery in Arkansas around 1850 ... founders were illiterate (it had been illegal in many Southern states for enslaved individuals to read and write ...

While this amendment formally ended chattel slavery, it allowed an exception—slavery was still legal if it was used as punishment for a crime. This clause opened the door for systemic oppression, as ...

During the slavery era in the United States, enslaved Black workers made up much of the workforce in the Southern states. Unlike the White labor pool, these workers received no wages or profit ...