SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Juneteenth was the day that the news that slavery had ended finally reached people in Texas. It's a conversation that until recently many families haven't had with their ...

Built in the early 1840s, the Hubbard House was among the final stops on the Underground Railroad. William and Katharine Hubbard helped people escaping slavery seek freedom in Canada. Built nearly two ...

“Northern Family, Southern Ties” is the result of three years of research on why New Jersey aligned more closely with southern states than its northern neighbors on practices regarding slavery. The ...

“Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it. By Jennifer Schuessler Come to the ...

Debra Bruno’s story illuminates the often overlooked history of slavery in the North. By Rachel L. Swarns This article is also a weekly newsletter. Sign up for Race/Related here. Debra Bruno used to ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read ...

As darkness enveloped the waters of Charleston Harbor, Robert Smalls realized that he would have no better chance to escape slavery than that morning. It was May 13, 1862, and Smalls did not hesitate, ...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday, during his diplomatic trip to Angola, acknowledged America's "original sin" of slavery and the slave trade that once connected the United States and the African nation.