It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas, “filled with Biblical and historical images, with many ...

Governments and religious institutions regulate marriage. Such regulations are heavily laden with specific moral ideas and cultural taboos. There are heated debates around what counts as “proper” ...

The Historical Markers project, pioneered by the Columbia University and Slavery project, debuted its first public display last week at a Columbia University Irving Medical Center residence hall ...

Much has been written about St. Louis’ slave history. The study of census tracts of the times notes the city’s rapid growth of Black slaves increased from 268 in 1799 to 2,656 by 1850. A mere 30 years ...

The Church of England’s slavery reparations drive could turn parishioners away from collection plates, a poll has found.

At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...

Yale University has apologized for its historical connection to slavery. The Ivy League institution said in a news release on Friday that the apology is a component of its “ongoing work to understand ...

Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...

Slavery existed across colonial Connecticut, contrasting with America’s sanitized history. Slavery existed across colonial Connecticut, and enslaving people was legal in Connecticut for more than 200 ...

The 2025 conference in Washington, D.C., had as its theme “Catholic Archives and Slavery: Research, Collaboration and Hope,” ...

Yale University Friday released a statement on its connection to the institution of slavery, an issue that has brought controversy in recent years as it grapples with the history of some of its ...

THE time has come for some one to write the classical biography of Abraham Lincoln. All the essential materials for such a life are now in our possession. Memoirs and Reminiscences without number have ...