Historians often compare today's political polarization to the decade preceding the American Civil War. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intensified conflicts between federal authorities and Northern ...

Exclusive: Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy says treating these objects as collectors’ items ‘should be looked at in horror’ An antiques auction selling chains linked to the enslavement of African people ...

The appeal comes days after a judge ordered the administration to restore the slavery exhibit, citing George Orwell’s 1984 as part of her ruling. Political Correspondent The Trump administration is ...

In the latest turn of events, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration wrongly removed historic panels about people George Washington enslaved at the President’s House in Philadelphia. A ...

Ghana will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly in March to designate the African slave trade as "the most serious crime against humanity," Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama ...

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This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A vivid rumor began circulating in the United States in the middle of ...

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett raised eyebrows last week when she compared President Donald Trump to a domestic abuser, suggested that the tactics displayed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

Former Israeli hostage Romi Gonen said she endured repeated sexual assault, harassment and intimidation during her 471 days of Hamas captivity, speaking publicly for the first time about her ...

CNN host Jake Tapper pressed Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Tuesday about remarks made last year in a Vanity Fair article, when she said the way Latinos talk about immigration reminds her of the ...

When the slave ship Zorg set sail for the Caribbean from the African island of São Tomé on Sept. 6, 1781, it embarked on a horrific journey that would ultimately awaken a movement to end England’s ...

As Suriname celebrates 50 years of independence, the spectre of Dutch colonial rule and its role in the slave trade still lingers. The king and queen of the Netherlands touched down in the small South ...