slaveholders

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.

A favorite of Old Hickory, she made him seem kinder than he was. Why?

Swarns’s book about a sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is the legacy of resistance.

When "The Emancipator" was first published in 1820, its original owner had to answer for why he owned Nancy and her five children.

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

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

Before Theodore Roosevelt Island was transformed, a prominent Virginia family relied on enslaved laborers to build and tend to its summer home.

Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson’s life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name.

In "American Slavers," Sean M. Kelley surveys the relatively unknown history of Americans who traded in slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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

And justified the most extreme responses.

Unlike the Southern whites who moved en masse during the 20th century, these early migrants often had direct, personal ties to the institution of slavery.

A summary of how white migration out of the postbellum South entrenched Confederate culture across the U.S. during postwar reconciliation.

Across the Americas, emancipation moved slowly, and profited those who had benefited from slavery most.

The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

Harry Washington fought for his enslaver's enemy during the American Revolution. Later, he migrated to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.

Over the course of her 83 years, the megawatt star that was Tina Turner kept telling us who she was in the hopes that we would see her — all of her.

Likely the child of Martha's son from her first marriage, William Costin used his position to advocate for D.C.'s free Black community.

David Hackett Fischer's book "African Founders" should be the starting point for any reflection on the enduring African ­influence on American national ideals.

Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper’s origins.