After Madam Efurunoye Tinubu made a fortune from selling slaves she made a u-turn to stop the selling of humans. Sadly, she lost two sons to malaria while in Badagry — a famed slave port in Nigeria ...

The nation's youngest federal holiday will take place this week, giving many Americans the day off in remembrance of the abolishment of slavery. As a federal holiday, many businesses and services, ...

More than 400 years have passed since chattel slavery was deemed a respectable and integral part of the American economy and policy. Still, there are folks who try to rewrite history and “whitewash” ...

Historians gather on 190th anniversary of founding of NY State Anti-Slavery Society to dub Utica the birthplace of American abolition movement, Underground Railroad. Hope Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in ...

A new commemorative plaque has been approved in Edinburgh city centre to mark the spot where a former slave and leading abolitionist gave speech in 1846.

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Nestled inside Prospect Park, Brooklyn sits an 18th-century farmhouse with white panels and a brown roof known as the Lefferts Historic House. Originally built in the 1680s, ...

The question of slavery’s future figured prominently when the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Some delegates from Northern states hoped to banish the practice.