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

Slavery was still allowed in states that did not secede from the United States, including Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky. Maryland abolished slavery on Nov. 1, 1864, and Missouri did ...

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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.

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...

More than 150 years after it was officially outlawed in the U.S., slavery will be on the November ballot in five states, including Oregon. Here's why.

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.