US Slave

The New York Times reported on August 16, 2009 in an article entitled, "Through the Memoir of a Slave," by Rachel L. Swarns -...

From the Library of Virginia :  Brown v. Board of Education was a group of five legal appeals that challenged the "separate but equ...

Most of us have grown up with a particular framework about American history and particularly the history of the presidencies. For the most p...

Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight ...

Interior of Slave Pen The interior of a slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia, shows the cells where people were held prior to being sold. From ...

E. S. Abdy description of a Washington, D.C., slave pen E.S. Abdy, Journal of a Residence and Tour...One day I went to see the "slaves...

Slavery in the United States was governed by an extensive body of law developed from the 1640s to the 1860s. Every slave state had its own s...

Paul Jennings, who was born a slave on President James Madison’s estate at Montpelier in 1799, was a "body servant" who attended t...

An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C. In "An Example for All the Land," Ka...