By August 1865, the American Civil War was over. Many Southerners wanted to restore some semblance of normality -- as they saw it -- in their homes and communities. So Col. P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee wrote to...

Photo: Hugo!/Flickr No, t...  ...people being captured and sold in to slavery they made a contract with the Portuguese to hunt...  ...e being sold in to a lifetime’s slavery and shipped across the world in appalling conditi...

Fifty years after slavery was abolished, the Bronx Zoo had an exhibit in wh...

Earlier this month was National Sisters Day, which...  ...of South Carolina was a strong proponent both of slavery and of the subordination of women. The girls wer...  ...ive plantation, where they saw the worst parts of slavery on a regular basis. When Sarah was only five, she...  ...to run away so she could e...

To-may-to, to-mah-to ... fruit, vegetable - whate...  ...led for trying to escape. That sounds like 1850's slavery to me, and that, in fact, is going on, or has gon...  ...abrook adds that there have been seven successful slavery prosecutions in Florida in the past 15 years. ht...

Jonathan Dillon was an Irish immigrant watchmaker...  ...watch these words: "The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank God we have a President who at lea...