In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, tensions in the country mounted over the issue of slavery. By 1830, there were more than 2 million slaves in the United States, worth over a ...

While the United States has never implemented a widespread slavery reparations program, the tide might be turning as several ...

Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help ...

This map, made by the U.S. Coast Survey in 1861 using census data from 1860, shows the relative prevalence of slavery in Southern counties that year. (Click on the image or on this link to arrive ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme oppression and violence. But slavery was not just about labor and the ...