Thomas Laws, a slave who was a spy for Union troops during the Civil War, will be recognized with a historical marker in ...

Comparing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to American slave patrols starts with a core understanding of their ...

On the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in ...

In an interview this week , James Fishback argued that U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds shouldn’t have been offended by being called a ...

Was Nat Turner a hero? Depends on whose descendants you ask. On assignment for 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper went to Southampton County, Virginia, to the place where Turner’s bloody rebellion took place ...

Nearly nine months before U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Emancipation Proclamation calling for the end of slavery, the District of Columbia outlawed the slavery and paid reparations to ...

In "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon & Schuster), author Ilyon Woo recounts a remarkable 19th century story of deception, in which a fair-skinned enslaved ...

Archaeologists have discovered slave quarters at the ancient site of Pompeii. The room, which is uniquely well preserved, sheds a light on what life was like for enslaved people during the Roman ...

This story starts — but certainly doesn't end — in 19th century Maryland, when John Townshend updated his will. Townshend grew convinced at the end of his life that God would punish him if he did not ...