"Tronco" (foot stocks) (c. 1600–1800) on view as part of the Rijksmuseum's Slavery exhibition (all images courtesy Rijksmuseum) The Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam has announced that an adapted version of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reparations for slavery and historic discrimination against African Americans once seemed like a pipe dream. But momentum for it ...

Growing up, Dominique Williams visited her grandmother every weekend. And on each trip, she was greeted by a piece of her past, a name stitched in fabric, filled with centuries of legacy and mystery. ...

The region's waters were a common means of escape from slavery, in addition to land-based networks of the Underground Railroad.