A Richmond museum is preparing to open an exhibition in June that will explore the lives of free Black Virginians from 1619 ...

On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...

Emancipation Day marks the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862. More than 3,000 enslaved ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi ... navigated these questions around slavery and abolition in the 1850s and then the Civil ...

The abolition or slavery, by the constitutional ratification of the States, will strengthen the Union cause in North Carolina and Virginia, the present battle-ground of the rebels. The gambler ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

Georgia's Fort Benning, formerly Fort Moore, is holding a ceremony to rename the military base. Here are bios of the people behind the names - including the two Bennings.

As a younger man, Jefferson argued for the abolition of slavery and in 1778 drafted a ... In Lincoln’s last public address in 1865, four days before he was assassinated, he recommended extending ...