US Slave

David Zucchino of the Los Angeles Times reports on Thursday, December 18, 2008: The place called Lumpkin's Slave Jail was indeed a jail,...

From the Hoover Institution author Dinesh D'Souza writes "In Jefferson's America, were some men not created equal?" : Alth...

Gouverneur Morris, The Constitution and Slavery We have Gouverneur Morris to thank for the Preamble to our constitution. He chose those fame...

HARRIET, THE MOSES OF HER PEOPLE. ON a hot summer's day, perhaps sixty years ago, a group of merry little darkies were rolling a...

Go down, Moses, Way down in Egyptaland; Tell old Pharaoh To let my people go. When Israel was in Egypt's Land, Let my people go. Oppress...

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten ...

The U.S. National Slavery Museum, with a spacious, light-filled atrium, was designed by New York architect C.C. Pei, son of renowned archit...

The visual centerpiece of the proposed U.S. National Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg, Va., is to be a full-size replica of the Portuguese ...

Since Paul Harvey died this year, I'll have to tell you the rest of the story. Now, as I posted earlier, at the close of the Civil War ...

By 1858, as the [Lehman] brothers witnessed the shift in cotton's center from the South to New York City, where factors and commission ...

The Quakers were the first religious denomination on either side of the Atlantic to come out against slavery. There were only some 20,000 Q...

An opionion piece by Kenneth Libo, published on September 18, 2008, in the Jewish Daily Forward states: The global financial system was sha...

The thriving British economy after 1660 was made possible mainly because of Britain's financial institutions. Trading houses, insurance...

Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis had few complaints about the able-bodied black men who were supplying the muscle and sweat to keep his...