Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property was enforced by violence -- actual or threatened. People, black and white, lived together ...

Arlington is taking a cue from Germany, where “stumbling stones” are embedded near the homes of Holocaust victims.

Virtually everyone agrees that slavery is inhumane and degrading and wrong, but since for much of history many people defended it, it's important to demonstrate why it's wrong. A number of ...

LONDON - The number of potential modern slavery victims in Britain rose to a record last year, official statistics showed on Thursday, highlighting a growing crime that experts say requires the ...

Catch phrases about slavery have stopped people from thinking for even longer than that. Today the moral horror of slavery is so widely condemned that it is hard to realize that there were ...

Instead, you would see tens of millions of native people already living in the Americas, joined by an extraordinary flow not of European colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th ...

Black people throughout the country reported receiving similar messages, which varied in wording but all ordered their ...