We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...

"A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery ...

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

Prologue: A house divided -- Introduction: The slave power -- Section 1: The age of revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United ...

On the 200 manicured acres of the Whitney Plantation stands the pristine white main house, built with the blood and sweat of ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler See more of our coverage in your ...

June 19 (UPI) --Juneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000 slaves in Texas were granted their freedom following the Civil War. President Joe ...

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

Christians often have been reminded that some of their forebears supported slavery, but many do not know Christians ended slavery in the United States. Southern Baptists, in particular, frequently are ...