Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in ...