The new garden is a way to honor and recognize the enslaved, but Tedesco said the monastery is really the memorial to them because of the “75 years of praying on [the] land to redeem it from the ...

NEW YORK: Harvard University has agreed to settle a deeply emotional dispute over who has the rights to images of enslaved Africans taken in 1850 by a professor who sought to support a racist ...

The North Fork Project’s mission is to uncover the names and learn about the lives of the enslaved Africans who were brought to Long Island. So far, the group of four has identified about 450 ...

The Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved, a nonprofit organization, made the call not to participate hours before the event’s start time. The coalition deemed the apology as ...

ST. LOUIS – St. Louis University was set to apologize for enslaving people. Hours before the ceremony, a group of descendants of Black people the school enslaved backed out, citing concerns that ...

More than 480 formerly enslaved people were discovered at a cemetery in Historic Brattonsville in York County, SC. Their descendants want to remember them.

But when Jefferson went to Washington, the president called for enslaved teenage girls to come learn French cookery under George Washington's chef, Julien. Fossett’s sister-in-law Frances Hern ...

Whether it was spent feasting or plotting escapes, the week between Christmas and the new year offered a rare opportunity for enslaved men, women and children to reclaim their humanity.

Jackson is known to have owned more than 300 enslaved people before the Civil War." “What the cemetery does is it really connects you to the fact that slavery did take place here,” said Guzzi.

The newly discovered site is separate from the property’s existing marked cemetery for enslaved people, which was discovered in 2006 and belonged to a different plantation near The Hermitage.