The crisis had begun with slavery. Of the more than 3 million Black Americans in 1848, nearly 90% were held in bondage. They lived and worked on Southern farms owned by the same white men who claimed ...

History is the study of change over time, and as The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery shows, the future does not ...

In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling denied Black citizenship, upheld slavery, and stands as one of the Court's ...

The tale of an enslaved West African girl turned protegee to an English queen may sound like the stuff of fairy tales, but it comes straight from the history books - one of many forgotten Black ...

Susana Quinonez was born and raised on an abaca tree plantation along Ecuador's western coast where back-breaking work and ...

In most Western history books, the history of Africa before the bloody and gruesome age of colonialism is barely touched on, ...

Recent books, The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the ...

Equiano was a vocal opponent of slavery, adopting the once-widely-held stance of Quakers who saw the act as an affront to humanity.

From a one-room storefront in Rosenberg to a new $4 million home, Larry Callies’ Black Cowboy Museum is expanding — and so is the story of who built Texas — writes the editorial ...

"We are a race that has never before existed ... as a majority of African-descended people begin their history in the United ...

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...