The marriage of ardent abolitionist Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler, heir to one of the largest slaveholding plantations in the nation, mirrored the unhappy union between southern slaveholders and ...

The roots of American slavery precede early modern European thought and extend back to Greece and Rome.

Also available on the Internet to registered users. "Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Virginia Center for Civil War Studies director Paul Quigley talked about importance of newspapers during the Antebellum era. The Virginia Center for ...

A New Orleans attorney has turned an antebellum plantation into a new museum. You won't find hoop skirts and mint juleps but stark relics at a... New Museum Depicts 'The Life Of A Slave From Cradle To ...

Slavery and segregation still existed in Massachusetts after the Civil War. West Barnstable native Lemuel Shaw decided cases related to those issues during his 30-year term as the state’s Supreme ...

Over 150 years after slaves were freed in the United States, four states voted Tuesday to remove language that permits forced prison labor from their state constitutions. While the 13th Amendment ...

Voters in three states approved ballot measures to amend their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fourth state rejected the ...

Voters in four states approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fifth state rejected ...