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

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 ...

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

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

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

Comedian Lenny Henry has backed calls for the UK to pay more than £18 trillion in reparations. Where did that figure come ...

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.

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 ...

The risks of modern slavery in the housebuilding sector are “poorly understood” despite its size and political importance, a ...

This is the calculated sale of vulnerable humans — children, in this horrific case — into the service of other humans, with ...