Read more coverage of America 250 in Connecticut. The first recording of enslaved Africans in Connecticut is in 1639 when an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about the ...

Anne Arundel County held A Day of Acknowledgement: Confronting the Legacy of Slavery event, at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, which included an apology from County Executive Steuart Pittman ...

Rabbi David Einhorn, an American abolitionist. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, ...

Much of the power of the Declaration of Independence rests on Thomas Jefferson’s opening line: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their ...

The idea of slavery in modern times is a foreign concept for most Westerners. Of course, the Black Lives Matter movement was built on the continuing problem of racism and the 1640 movement aimed to ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...

Although the importation of slaves was outlawed in 1807, the domestic slave trade remained a major economic establishment in America until the Civil War. Before its retrocession to Virginia, the city ...