Slavery

Celebrate Emancipation with stories of food and Black liberation.

Legend has it that seeing this ghost before a hurricane is good luck. But what else can The Gray Man tell us about local history?

A gilded royal vehicle in the Netherlands—currently being restored—has sparked conversations about the colonial past.

In Maryland, archaeologists raced rising waters to find traces of the past.

Archaeologists found muskrat, turtle, and other edible remains in Harriet Tubman Country.

This slave trade is well known to historians, but this is the first known wreck from it.

The logbook is written from the white perspective, and its horrors are plain to see.

Events like Tennessee’s Libation Ceremony offer a chance “to finally start grabbing the pieces that have been scattered and lost.”

Despite James Hemings’s leading role in Jefferson’s kitchen, he’s credited with only a handful of recipes.

It was discovered "forensically," thanks to Douglass's distinctive usage of an unusual word.