Slavery expanded westward through a massive and brutal internal slave trade after the Three-Fifths Compromise.

The Whitney Plantation museum loses its federal grants for Black history and culture as a result of Trump's attack on DEI.

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...

In the early decades of the Republic, the United States Congress was a deeply flawed institution. In the famous compromise known as the three-fifths rule, the Constitution had allowed slave states ...

McGill’s mission: to sleep in every former slave dwelling still standing in the United States. Tonight’s stay, in a cabin on Georgia’s Ossabaw Island, will be his 41st such lodging.

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

House File 649 amends state law to this: “A person who purchases or offers to purchase services as a partner in a sex act from a person who is under the age of 18 or who is reasonably believed to be ...

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their ...