TWO former slaves have issued a stark warning to the West about Syria’s new “reformer” president Ahmed al-Sharaa. Yazidi ...

For some members of the families, it was their first time inside the nearly 200-year-old two-story, white columned antebellum mansion.

Last known slave ship to arrive in U.S. discovered in Alabama Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where ...

More than 50 years after the slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda brought 110 Africans on the final harrowing journey through the Middle Passage to America. For generations, their descendants ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

More than a century after 110 Africans were smuggled to Alabama on a ship, the descendants of the ship's financier are working toward reconciliation.

As slavery twisted politics and society in Alabama and throughout the South, it also warped the state’s finances. For decades, the slave tax was a major pillar of the state’s tax system.

People incarcerated in Alabama's prisons say they're the victims of 'a modern-day form of slavery.' Those imprisoned in other states can say the same.

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

Horace King, a former slave, was a renowned bridge builder and architect in the American South during the 19th century. King was known for his craftsmanship, particularly his intricate spiral ...

Vincent, a small town in central Alabama, has disbanded its police department after an officer allegedly texted a joke about slaves that surfaced on social media.