Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved men and women in Texas found out they were free. But liberation didn't arrive in one day.

In this drawing from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' a Black child is taken from his mother by a white man. Culture Club/Getty Images In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in ...

Re “Historic meaning behind Juneteenth” (C8, June 19): In the “Ask Harriet” column, she responded to a question about Juneteenth by telling the questioner, “It commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that ...

Dr. Molefi Asante, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University says June 19th, 1865, also known as Juneteenth, is a day that blacks in America should never forget. "It is ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch ...

As Labor Day approaches, we should reflect not just on the holiday’s own important history, but also on the much longer fight to protect American workers. W.E.B. DuBois famously described the American ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...

The Atlantic slave trade and a very small place in Africa : global processes and local factors in the history of Little Popo, 1680s to 1860s / by Silke Stickrodt -- The hobgoblins of the Middle ...