On Tuesday, as Juneteenth—the holiday marking the end of slavery—was observed, the City Council of Charleston, S.C.,…

In 1860, 52 years after the importation of human chattel was outlawed in the United States, the Clotilda, a two-masted…

What if we could put names and faces to the Africans who were brought over to America as slaves in 1619? Would it…

When CNN broke the story several weeks ago that slavery—not wage slavery, not emotional slavery, not virtual slavery,…

You know, there’s a way to teach slavery to people, especially children, without involving fun, hand-drawn posters and…

The recent opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is part of a long and…

Paul Gardullo lifted an iron ballast from a Portuguese slave ship that sank in 1794 out of a crate Wednesday morning…