Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

(NEXSTAR) – Plenty of America’s most persistent ... who was born into slavery and later worked as a cook in Alabama and California before becoming an entrepreneur, a cookbook author and ...

Mario Tama / Getty Images Slavery reparations are restitution ... University of Chicago Press. "American Economic Growth of Standards of Living Before the Civil War," Pages 26-37.

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

Slave catchers had come knocking ... There, the man born enslaved served as an American ambassador to Liberia — a role he would hold for just a few months before his death.

America has done this before — creating ... and to establish schools for the millions of people emancipated from slavery. The schools were a condition for the Confederate States’ admission ...

The year is 1833, and Edmund Keane tops the theatrical A-list. Critics have even labeled him the "greatest actor of his ...

This is the subject of a new book called Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art by art historian Caroline Fowler. We asked about her study. What was Dutch art about before slavery and what was the ...