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

click image for close-up American illustrator Howard Pyle ... come by way of the Caribbean Islands. In 1655, the first large shipment of slaves directly from Africa arrived at New Amsterdam.

A slave could become free by converting to Christianity. The first Virginia colonists did ... One of the few recorded histories of an African in America that we can glean from early court records ...

Fascinating maps based on pre-Civil War census data clearly show the spread of enslaved workers as agriculture pushed ever west The maps use dating stretching as far back as the first U.S. census ...

This month marks 400 years since the arrival of the first 20 slaves into the US. Earlier this week, Reuters published a photo-series called "Built by my family: America's grand buildings built by ...

It seems, at first glance ... of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The tag likely hung from the neck of a slave for a calendar year, representing all that we will ever ...