slavery

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’s classic 'Huckleberry Finn' into a tragedy.

A detailed look on Abraham Lincoln's political philosophy on slavery, ownership, and freedom.

Military archives reveal the brutal history of slavery in the U.S. Army.

An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise.

Natchez, Miss., is beginning to highlight the history of its enslaved people—including at a Black-owned bed and breakfast in former slave quarters.

Florida’s new standards for teaching social studies include throwbacks to an interpretation of slavery as benign or inconsequential.

To understand the proslavery defense of the 1850s, one must reckon with the proslavery Malthusianism articulated by Cooper in the 1820s.

Baptists were never monolithic on the issue of slavery, but Southern Baptists were united in their opposition to Northern Baptists determining their beliefs.

Newspaper announcements from 1859 reveal how some Richmond slaveholders organized to protect the institution of slavery.

Wealthy planter Samuel Townshend wanted to leave this estate to his children when he died—an ordinary enough wish. The trouble was: his children were enslaved.

A movement to secure payments for descendants of enslaved people rages on.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made reference to the legal opinions of English jurist Henry de Bracton, foreshadowing the court overturning Roe v. Wade.

Slavery’s a sensitive subject, but so is the question of who gets to be an authority about language.

As Frederick Douglass’s master put it, a slave who learned to read and write against the will of his master was tantamount to “running away with himself.”

'Did slavery make home always somewhere else?'

The bones of enslaved furnace workers tell the grim story of their lives.

During the 1860 presidential election, political parties dueled over the intent of the framers.

The story of Caesar, an enslaved chef and chocolatier in colonial Virginia.

On the racial wealth gap.