The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform ... created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president.

His art will be displayed in conjunction with Amiri Farris in a new exhibit, Roots and Realities, at the Beach Institute ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...

A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was torn down by protesters ... the "Lost Cause" mythology that romanticizes slavery and promotes the honor of the Confederate cause.

Speakers at the "Beyond Slavery" conference spoke on the following topics related to sexual violence in the era of slavery and Jim Crow. The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover ...