Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh ...

President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate-held ...

You’ve probably never heard of Mitchelville – but it might be the most important place you visit in South Carolina - On ...

So it is worth studying the last time America took over 2m sparsely populated, richly endowed, strateg­ically located square ...

Courts of the era were explicit about what that meant. A trial with fewer than 12 jurors was, in the words of South Carolina Chief Justice John Belton O’Neall, “not a trial by jury, in any sense in ...

An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...

The jury box in the criminal court at Centre St. in New York City The Supreme Court is set to decide in the next few weeks ...

A Black man who works in the French Quarter in New Orleans told me that he doesn’t like window-shopping. For those unfamiliar ...

Under slave laws, the necessity for color rankings was obvious, but in America today, post-civil-rights legislation, white people’s conviction of their ...

This new exhibit highlights how the founding ideals of liberty and representation sparked during the American Revolution have ...

Maryland will create a commission to study potential slavery reparations in the state, after lawmakers overrode a veto by ...