Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features. Broadside advertising a slave auction outside of ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...

“Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, ...

Common slavery misconceptions American history gets wrong, from the Civil War's causes to the domestic slave trade. The post ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It was 1860 and America was at an inflection point. It wasn't just ...

When Britain abolished slavery in its empire in 1833, it paid the equivalent of hundreds of billions today in compensation—not to the enslaved, but to the slave owners. It was an imperfect, morally ...