A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

They had gathered to celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Washington, DC, a result of the first emancipation law passed by the U.S. government in 1862.

Historians estimate that more than 300,000 enslaved people passed through Lumpkin’s and other slave jails throughout the state at the height of the national slave trade in the mid-19th century.

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal nations in Oklahoma continued to own slaves until the ...

Debra Bruno’s story illuminates the often overlooked history of slavery in the North. By Rachel L. Swarns This article is also a weekly newsletter. Sign up for Race/Related here. Debra Bruno ...

Several tribes practiced slavery, and five in Oklahoma — The Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Muscogee nations — signed reconstruction treaties with the U.S. in 1866 abolishing it ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full ...

Under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, an enslaver who tracked down an escaped slave could—often assisted by bounty hunters—seize the escapee and drag them before any judge or magistrate. If ...

State Reps. Dontavius Jarrells, D-Columbus, and Veronica Sims, D-Akron, are working on a joint resolution that would remove slavery from the state’s constitution.

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal nations in Oklahoma continued to own slaves until the ...

WEST SENECA, N.Y. — A Tropic Air captain from Belize is sharing his remarkable story after surviving a mid air hijacking and a brutal knife attack. Now, he's in Western New York, walking again ...