DENVER—Auditors say several historic emancipation documents in the Denver library collection are at risk for environmental damage and theft. Treasures at risk include emancipation papers from the ...

Centre for Justice has put out a call for papers for its upcoming conference, set to be held on July 10, 2014, that will commemorate the 180 years that have passed since Emancipation and examine ...

In the late 1860s James Kelley, a man living in Chicot County, Ark., wrote to the Freedmen's Bureau asking for help in finding his children. Like thousands of black families, they had been separated ...

All slaves held in New York state were freed in 1827. There were approximately 20,000 enslaved people in the state of New York in the year 1800, about 15,000 in 1810, and 10,000 in 1820. Slavery was ...