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.

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 ...

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.

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. The slave institutions of the United States seem tending with marked fatality to some violent result.

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 ...

Voters in five states are deciding whether to close loopholes that allow convict labor as an exception to the abolition of slavery.