Did Evelyn Duval, the wife of a Louisiana plantation owner, elope with a runaway slave in 1847? No, that's not true: This ...

People are invited to view a new exhibition exploring Staffordshire and Slavery. The exhibition, at the Staffordshire History Centre in Stafford, uses previously unseen letters, petitions and legal ...

Sir Lenny Henry might be famous for his comedy, but there is nothing light-hearted about his latest work. In a new book, The ...

By seeking to assert control over civic architecture, Trump is creating a physical testament to his destruction of democracy, ...

That story is told in a new book of the same name, the work of a pair of preeminent scholars of colonial Louisiana, Nathalie ...

Black and white descendants of a family that owned a plantation in South Carolina travelled to London, Ont., to learn more about their ancestor — a man whose legacy casts a long shadow. Dr. James ...

Jane Austen lived under the rule of a slave-trading empire. What did she think about that? And if we could figure out what ...

Denise Washington, a fourth-generation descendant of a man who was enslaved by the Harvard-affiliated Vassall family in the ...

The narrative of the current New Orleans Museum of Art exhibit “Dawoud Bey: Elegy” follows the movement of Africans into and ...