Wikimedia Commons/The Illustrated London News Joseph Trammell’s Freedom Papers Joseph Trammell was born enslaved in Virginia ...

Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced displacement, cultural erasure, and enslavement of millions of African and ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.

Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, is this week. Here's everything to know.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's special events for Juneteenth will include the display of a signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Look at what we’ve been able to endure as a community.” On Jan. 1, 1863, nearly two years into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the freedom ...

In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipa… ...