ST. PAUL -- A St. Cloud State University professor has found evidence of slavery in several Minnesota counties before the Civil War, a groundbreaking discovery that sheds light on the Midwest's ...

Given the current criminal grounding of our justice system, KY must remove the exception clause from our constitution, and ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Sorry is not enough: That’s why representatives of a newspaper in England are visiting the Lowcountry and places around the globe where the paper played a role in the ...

When Ancestry.com embarked on a massive project to collect nearly 40,000 newspaper articles tracing the lives of 183,000 enslaved people in the United States, the date Aug. 22, 1862, could have ...

ABC News Live takes a closer look at Asheville's historic reparations plan. ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- More than 150 years after emancipation, the city council in Asheville, North Carolina, voted this month ...

Some Americans had opposed slavery since colonial times. In 1777, Vermont was the first U.S. territory to ban slavery, and the state of Pennsylvania followed suit in 1780. By 1804, Northern states had ...

At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a neighbor’s pastureland. The Uniontown newspaper carried reports on ...

The story of St. Josephine Bakhita, born in Sudan’s Darfur region in 1869, is one of unimaginable suffering transformed into radiant hope. The Church celebrates her feast on Feb.8. Kidnapped at the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Virginia Center for Civil War Studies director Paul Quigley talked about the impact of advertisements in newspapers during the Antebellum era and how ...

Some findings of a research conducted by the University College London, in collaboration with University of Ibadan, titled: African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa ...