After New York City announced people will need proof of Covid-19 vaccination to enter some indoor facilities, acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey likened the rule to the slavery-era freedom papers. After ...

Whether you celebrate the Fourth of July, Juneteenth, both, or neither, if you believe in racial justice and equality, let these books inspire your quest for independence. While many Black Americans ...

Much has been written about St. Louis’ slave history. The study of census tracts of the times notes the city’s rapid growth of Black slaves increased from 268 in 1799 to 2,656 by 1850. A mere 30 years ...

Elaine Thompson, a celebrated Loudoun historian and schoolteacher and direct descendant of Trammell, donated her ancestor’s freedom papers to the museum shortly before her death in 2016. “I said it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Shackles. Cotton. The Big House. Americans tend to think of slavery in ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The story of the Underground Railroad is largely taught in American history as a northern route that slaves used to escape and find their freedom, but a new exhibit at a University ...

“What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass famously asked during an anti-slavery address at Rochester, New York’s Corinthian Hall on July 5, 1852 (you can hear James Earl Jones ...