slaveholders

The Union general directly benefited from the brutal institution before and during the Civil War.

Among America's political elite, 5 living presidents, 2 Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators have ancestors who enslaved Black people.

Other emigrants such as Wolfe Tone did not compromise their principles in unfamiliar environments.

A Washington Post investigation of more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building found that one-third honor enslavers or Confederates.

In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions in uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved?

Another chance to examine the terms we use and why they matter.

Tufts Professor Kris Manjapra examines the history of the injustice of abolition in the U.S. and abroad and the need for reparations in his new book.

A new book examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.

The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of census records and historical documents.

The little-known story of Robert Carter III.

John Marshall not only owned people; he owned many of them, and aggressively bought them when he could.

White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk.

The man who supposedly never told a lie figured out how to stretch the truth when it came to human bondage.

A review of the most detailed examination yet published of slavery at Mount Vernon.

Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past.

White women and the economy of slavery.

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.

According to Lost Cause mythology, Lee was a benevolent slave owner who fought for states’ rights. His slaves said otherwise.

The two men owned slaves — but at vastly different moments in American history.

Buying goods in the Old South revealed the fragile politics at the heart of master-slave relation.