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 ...

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

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

I took a leap of faith—and it led me in search of history’s lost slave ships. SCIENCE. Sunken shipwrecks tell the story of Alaska’s ‘forgotten’ WWII battlefield. HISTORY & CULTURE.