In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...

“This was not about the past,” Nkrumah Steward told ABC News. — -- It was a meeting 181 years in the making as Nkrumah Steward, a slave descendant, and Robert Adams, a plantation owner, sat down ...

In my childhood I knew a valuable slave, named Charity, and loved her, as all children did. Her young mistress married, and took her to Louisiana. Her little boy, James, was sold to a good sort of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — As the campaign to quash the teachings of America’s brutal history of slavery intensifies, Joseph McGill Jr. has waged a counterattack by way of a poignant three-day conference in ...

This story starts — but certainly doesn't end — in 19th century Maryland, when John Townshend updated his will. Townshend grew convinced at the end of his life that God would punish him if he did not ...

The bronze historical plaque will be installed at the site of a St. Louis slave prison once owned by Bernard M. Lynch, a ...

Who are we looking for, who are we looking for? It's Equiano we're looking for. Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back. Has he gone to the farm? Let him return. It's Equiano we're looking for. - ...

Archaeologists have discovered slave quarters at the ancient site of Pompeii. The room, which is uniquely well preserved, sheds a light on what life was like for enslaved people during the Roman ...

Inside the Boston Public Library, deep in the stacks, are clues to an escape from slavery in 1848 – a breathtaking combination of daring and deception. Author Ilyon Woo, who has spent the last seven ...