Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Manisha ...

Many people believe that slavery in Latin America was a benevolent institution. Several scholars and students think that slave owners freed their slaves out of pure generosity, embracing the idea that ...

Education officials say the materials were designed to be age appropriate but critics argue they repeatedly omit key context ...

For the word puzzle clue of unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the united states constitution to prevent secession of slave states, the Sporcle Puzzle Library found the following ...

The internal slave trade in the United States, also known as the domestic slave trade, the Second Middle Passage and the interregional slave trade, was the mercantile trade of enslaved people within ...

In 2016, a University of Chicago scholar stumbled across an extraordinary piece of writing that had been lost for nearly two ...

At least seven states have taken slavery exceptions out of their constitutions. In California and Nevada, so-called slavery "loopholes" are on this year's ballot. Much like the 13th Amendment in ...

“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 to their ...

The Civil War between the United States and the Confederacy was fought over the issue of enslavement. Slavery was the ...

In California and Nevada, so-called slavery "loopholes" are on this year's ballot. Much like the 13th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, many states across the country have an exception for ...

Slave markets and slave jails in the United States were places used for the slave trade in the United States from the founding in 1776 until the total abolition of slavery in 1865. Slave pens, also ...

The commission’s creation came after the publication of a series of essays in The New York Times dubbed the 1619 Project, ...