University of Delaware has restored elements of student research, work and academic materials on slavery and Newark history ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...

Attorney and civil rights activist Michael Coard explains the history of the memorial, the latest in the lawsuit over it, and ...

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.

Enslaved people helped build the foundation of CT. Get to know the lives they lived. Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Enslaved people helped build the foundation of much ...

Over the past year, UD has reacted to pressure under a second Trump administration, while tuning a “long-term strategy” on ...

Laws enacted during the U.S. slavery era are still being used by lawyers and judges in today's courtrooms. Getty Images As the story of Juneteenth is told by modern-day historians, enslaved Black ...

Where the U.S. Federal Courthouse stands now in Los Angeles was once the site of a market where Native Americans' labor was sold in a system the ACLU has called “slavery by another name.” (Photo by ...

Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...

Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...

As Juneteenth rolls around, many Americans are celebrating the ending of slavery in the United States — and some for the first time. The annual celebration has been a long-standing tradition in Black ...