In 1856, a slave-owning representative from South Carolina used a cane to attack and beat Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner, who was vehemently opposed to slavery and spoke out against it.

A group of Black divers recently visited the site where the British slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 326 years ago.

In 1885, Nietzsche’s sister Elisabeth married Bernhard Förster, a high school teacher turned German nationalist and rabid ...

'It is a story that involves the juxtaposition of profit and power versus the human cost.' The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will display the largest and most ...

In an old Alabama cemetery lies one of the most complicated slave-era stories you will ever hear. Horace King was born into slavery, but after being taught to read, write, and build by John Godwin — ...

Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave vessels. Before 1820, four enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic for every European, making Africa the ...

A young student at England's Cambridge University decides to enter an essay contest, the theme of which is slavery. The student knows almost nothing about the topic, but delves into the subject anyway ...

In "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon & Schuster), author Ilyon Woo recounts a remarkable 19th century story of deception, in which a fair-skinned enslaved ...