Slavery is often described as a dark chapter that ended with abolition laws and moral awakening, yet history tells a more complicated story. While legal slavery was formally outlawed in many nations ...
The truth behind the myths America still protects.
A holiday that is spreading across the U.S. and beyond, Juneteenth is considered the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. It was originally celebrated on ...
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.