Archaeologists believe that plantation slavery may have taken root on a 16th-century sugar estate on the tiny African island of São Tomé. The two volcanic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were ...

"I believe those holidays were among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholders of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among the slaves." --Frederick Douglass On Dec. 20, 1837, just ...

Although generations have passed since the American Civil War, slavery’s past still taunts Black Americans in the form of Confederate flags and southern plantations. In fact, there remains hundreds of ...

I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who ...

THE race question in the South is at last beginning to be approached in a temper fairly free from partisan bias. But the institution which bequeathed us the race question still awaits dispassionate ...

Two Louisiana community groups claiming historic ties to the state's formerly enslaved population along the Mississippi River sued Wednesday for greater access to a plantation-era cemetery on the ...

What started as a quick stop on the side of the road turned into one of the largest slave cemeteries we’ve ever seen. As we walked deeper, sunken graves, fieldstones, and poured concrete markers began ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...

The highway crossed over the Mississippi River and sliced through flat farmland just west of New Orleans. Smokestacks billowed plumes in the distance. One road sign announced a chemical plant. Another ...

Slavery is a part of America’s dark history, but there’s a part of slavery that makes America’s history even darker—the slave breeding farms. “They’ve shown us every plantation with cotton on it,” the ...