There is an exciting new addition on display at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, ...

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

For the first time in its 166-year history, The Atlantic magazine will publish a new feature-length play: The Ghost of Slavery by Anna Deavere Smith. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD You will be ...

Though slavery was abolished in 1865, ... many Freedmen had little choice but to return to the plantations by the end of the 1860s. Their motives for this were mixed.

Editor's note: Please see our updated and expanded coverage of this topic published in June 2025. On April 2, 2024, the claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" went viral on X ...

Former President Biden spoke out against efforts to erase history during a Juneteenth speech in Texas, while President Trump did not formally recognize the holiday and expressed concern about ...

The actor makes a man who fled from slavery—and whose scarred back was famously photographed in the 1860s—into an implausible action-movie hero.

For more than 150 years, June 19 has been a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. Communities across the country will mark the day in 1865 when slaves in Texas learned that they, ...

I am amazed by the activities of Black civic leaders and politicians of the 1860s. Slavery ended in Tennessee Feb. 22, 1865, and 2,452 people in Knox County voted to abolish it. Since supporters ...

In “The American Daughters” the central characters are enslaved women (this time in 1860s New Orleans), ... Ady’s mom, who was not born into slavery, has other ideas.