The history of slavery in America is one of the most documented, studied, and also most misunderstood subjects in the ...

Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror ...

For Harpham’s explanation of how England came to view the enslavement of others as both a violation of nature and a legitimate institution, all roads ultimately lead back to Rome, and Roman law in ...

ELEC copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature Cover -- Half Title ...

Where the U.S. Federal Courthouse stands now in Los Angeles was once the site of a market where Native Americans' labor was sold in a system the ACLU has called “slavery by another name.” (Photo by ...

Sometime around 1860, Spaniards attacked a Navajo settlement in New Mexico and captured a woman named Ated-bah-Hohzoni, meaning “happy girl.” As she hid behind a cliff with her one-year-old daughter, ...

Rabbi David Einhorn, an American abolitionist. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, ...

MAY 1ST, YOU COULD BE FINED. NOW IT’S THE LAST DAY OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND FILM FESTIVAL. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW AT THE GLENWOOD ARTS THEATER IS USING IT TO HONOR A VERY DARK ERA IN OUR COUNTRY. KMBC9 ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he "shocked and horrified" to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Recent Baltimore protests over ...