St. Louis University was set to apologize for enslaving people. Hours before the ceremony, a group of descendants of Black ...

One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...