Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, ...

The following report is part of a Verite News series: "Devil's Bargain: How the slave trade built and sustained New Orleans" ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ser Amantio di Nicolao The Slave Pen of 1820s Alexandria, Virginia A brick building at 1315 Duke Street in ...