The end of slavery was not solely brought about by the Civil War in the U.S., but also by centuries of resistance across the ...

The story behind Simon's Requiem begins in 1838, in Washington, D.C., where Jesuit leaders of Georgetown College sold 272 enslaved people in order to rescue the financially strapped institution, later ...

Valentin de Boulogne's oil-on-canvas painting “Saint Paul Writing his Epistles” is one of many depictions of Paul and other Christian writers toiling alone, perhaps with the help of the holy spirit or ...

Mary Ann Macham’s story is an example of a larger phenomenon of Black American refuge in Britain in the 19th century.

The meme, which misrepresents actual statistics, is based on a report published in 2011 that encompassed people of all races and religious backgrounds enslaved globally — not just Black people and not ...

This article is part of a series of responses to Alex Tizon’s Atlantic article “My Family’s Slave.” The full series can be found here. Near the end of his story, Tizon describes his efforts to ...

George Mason University unveiled a new memorial this week honoring the people enslaved by the university’s namesake, as the Virginia school attempts to reckon with the prominent statesman’s ...

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A cemetery where enslaved people were laid to rest has been found at The Hermitage, the former plantation of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. This discovery sheds light on ...

The Capitol Region Land Conservancy (CRLC) has donated more than four acres of land to the City of Richmond, protecting the ...

Ms Abiodun's maternal grandmother, Johnetta Wilson, with her children at their California home. This year, California's government approved a plan to pay reparations to residents of the state who can ...

Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York The debate about reparations to descendants of enslaved people rages on. In California, the state’s reparations task force has ...