Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MARK FELIX/Getty Images At night, I lie awake thinking about someone I do not know. During the day, I comb through online archives ...

"A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery ...

June 19 (UPI) --Juneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000 slaves in Texas were granted their freedom following the Civil War. President Joe ...

LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) — There’s no shortage of history in Lancaster ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary. One of the nation’s oldest inland cities, it was once the U.S. capital — for a single ...

Mississippi's own documents from 1861 show the state seceded from the Union to protect slavery, not states' rights. Where did Lost Cause come from?

Why focus just on the transatlantic slave trade? Because the United Nations is engaged in a long-running con to extract reparations from the West by accusing it, and specifically the United States, of ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler See more of our coverage in your ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the ...

African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be straightforward.

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