Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved men and women in Texas found out they were free. But liberation didn't arrive in one day.

As Labor Day approaches, we should reflect not just on the holiday’s own important history, but also on the much longer fight to protect American workers. W.E.B. DuBois famously described the American ...

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America will celebrate Emancipation Day, also known as Juneteenth on June 19 – commemorating the end of slavery in our country – but the nation's most recently recognized national holiday has been ...

Georgetown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies (CSSL), which researches the history of enslavement, celebrated the history of emancipation from enslavement in Washington, D.C ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Emancipation Day marked the end of slavery in Florida, which happened before Juneteenth in Texas. This is how Emancipation Day has become a part of Florida culture. Click here for ...

Correction: a previous version of this story expressed that the Frist Art Museum was hosting a yearly August 8 Emancipation event, it was a one time event. America will celebrate Emancipation Day, ...

Discovering animalization -- Some evidence of animalization -- 1. Some meanings of slavery and emancipation: dehumanization, animalization, and free soil : The meaning of animalization, part I ; The ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is commonly believed to have ended slavery in the United States, but that’s a misconception. The United States was a ...

The real-life story of Peter, whose saga of escaping slavery made headlines around the world in 1863, is being made into Emancipation, a film starring Will Smith and directed by Antoine Fuqua. Apple ...