Slavery was still allowed in states that did not secede from the United States, including Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky.

Discussions on reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism are gaining momentum, with Caribbean and African nations calling on former colonial powers to engage on the issue.

As America approaches its 249th birthday, many scholars, writers, and ordinary Americans are prompted to review the nation’s ...

More than 150 years after it was officially outlawed in the United States, slavery will be on the ballot in five states in November, as a new abolitionist movement seeks to reshape prison labor ...

It is Slavery which has made the citizens boastful, arrogant, and vexatious, under the [???] of their actual subservience to the slave power.

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.

After nearly 157 years of slavery abolition in the United States, voters in five states where slavery is still legal as a punishment for convicted criminals will decide whether to outlaw the ...

The writers, members of the New York University Prison Education Program Research Lab, are the authors of “Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison Slavery.” Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the ...

Percival Everett was born in the deep South of the United States (Georgia, 1956) but has been based in California for some time. From there, he looks at the present and past of his country with ...

Although Congress passed the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States in January 1865, it still needed to be ratified by state legislatures.