In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of human bondage. By Richard Kreitner Richard Kreitner is the host of the U.S.

Kentucky has over 30 surviving plantations, with each now operating as a museum, a historic and educational landmark, or an event venue.

There’s a traditional narrative about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were entirely shut out of the legal system, disenfranchised and bereft of even a modicum of legal ...

Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the ...

A page from Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, A Graphic Novel. Courtesy of Verso Books Millions of people were abducted from west Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas ...