That God will have mercy upon us, preserve the unity of the nation, and delivery both races from that dreadful curse, African slavery, I pray for and hopefor. Thanking you for your prayers.

The attached letters address two different forms of sexual abuse. They are both addressed to Rice Carter Ballard, a slave trader and planter. Ballard was involved in the interstate slave trade in ...

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Lauren Cheramie’s recent article on the oldest building in Baton Rouge, Magnolia Mound, completely buries the lead on the site’s legacy as a French colonial-era slave labor camp. I would know ...

Dear Sir: I give you the trouble of this letter at the instance of Mr. Dalby of Alexandria; who is called to Philadelphia to attend what he conceives to be a vexatious lawsuit respecting a slave ...

To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love to slavery.” – Octavia Butler (1947-2006).

Historian Judith Giesberg, author of "Last Seen," and genealogist Adrienne Whaley on the families ripped apart by slavery and the search to find their loved ones.

Where to start? What about the flags that flew over the slave ships leaving Africa full of human cargo in the 1700s? Which ones were those? What flag was flying over the slave auction center in ...