Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The writing was already on the wall for the end of slavery, but a few last desperate words made it into print on April 22, 1865.

Movies about slavery are considered 'trauma porn' by many audiences these days, particularly African American ones. Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) was a powerful look at the minutiae of the ...

It’s Black History Month again, and you’re watching a presentation on slavery. This one, however, starts off with a newspaper advertisement from the pre-Civil War era: A slave owner is seeking the ...

"I will run away" -- Running to be free. From A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery. With an appendix, containing a list of places visited by the author in ...

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Throughout the 1800s, enslaved people in the South fled their plantations and made their way to the Rio Grande, Mexico. The Southbound Underground Railroad has been largely overlooked, mainly because ...

Editor's Note: PBS has partnered with historians and experts to bring fans the Mercy Street Revealed blog. Kenyatta D. Berry is genealogist and lawyer with more than 15 years of experience in ...

Not all South African rock art is ancient; some dates back to the colonial period—and was created by runaway slaves. It tells a remarkable story. Far cheaper was the illegal trade in indigenous slaves ...

Former republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson compared himself and other Black conservatives to “runaway slaves” who were abused and made examples of in order to instill fear into others.