It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." We all know the old saying: Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Our past is a part of us, ...

There’s a sad irony in a historical commission removing a book of slave remembrances, titled “Remembering the Days of Sorrow,” from a plantation’s gift shop. Yet that is one of 25 books, some about ...

After visiting the Varner-Hogg plantation an hour south of Houston, historical book publisher Michelle Haas seemed incensed by what she had seen. At an exhibit that details the farm’s use as a sugar ...

Dominic Davies does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has published a landmark book on the era of Indigenous slavery in Alaska that endured more than two decades after passage of the 13th Amendment to the federal ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE – The colonial history of Providence is one intertwined with slavery. But much of the time, only the names of the slave owners, the rich white men, make it into history books and the ...

History is most trustworthy when all voices in the chorus are heard. Fewer Black, brown or white Texans know the lifestyles of the people enslaved on plantations, in towns and in cities, or how they ...