Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject ...

Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists, and even on the narrowest definition of slavery it's likely that there are far more slaves now than there were ...

Amsterdam celebrates its 750th anniversary. For nearly that long, Netherlands’ capital and most populous city has avoided public dialogue about Dutch peoples’ inhumane treatment of Black people during ...

The Articles of Confederation contained an extradition clause for escaped criminals, but Pinckney wanted something more specifically directed to the return of slaves. He and his fellow South ...

Virtually everyone agrees that slavery is inhumane and degrading and wrong, but since for much of history many people defended it, it's important to demonstrate why it's wrong. A number of ...

He was one of the 10 to 12 million Africans who were sold into slavery from the 15th through the 19th Centuries. "I believe there are few events in my life that have not happened to many," wrote ...

In a distant time and place a country is divided into several kingdoms. The king of the richest has recently died and his son and heir will have a new bride selected for him from amongst the ...

Early in the 19th century, a young American is sent, with a seaman bodyguard, to Tripilo to buy the freedom of American sailors held as hostages by the Pasha. The ransom gold is stolen from him by ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time. One of the places we have the ...

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...

It's an unassuming, small museum in Germantown. Just two rooms packed with powerful artifacts that reflect the extremely painful history of slavery in America. This is the Lest We Forget Museum of ...

The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...