The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed.

Operatives and influencers aligned with the movement — which has made the treasonous Confederacy into a cause célèbre and ...

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of modern slavery offences after car parts and stolen vehicles were found at a ...

Over the past five years, Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead has ramped up efforts its efforts talk about slavery and the four ...

John Osman, who has died aged 96, was a journalist who reported from more than 100 countries, first for the Telegraph, and ...

The Philadelphian came to see that the ideals he championed — liberty, self-determination, human dignity — could not coexist ...

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of ...

Contrary to popular progressive opinion, slaves did not build America. Rather, the institution of slavery harmed America ...

A chilling and terrifying convergence is under way on the American religious right, David Bumgardner explains.

Situational politics led the California governor approved a comprehensive study in 2020, who now resists helping descendants of slaves.

The Civil War destroyed the legal structure of slavery but not the theology that sustained it. The same biblical imagination that once sanctified bondage survived Reconstruction and found new ...