The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution was a long and contested legal battle between Union President Abraham Lincoln (pictured with pen) and the…

A letter from a former slave, Jourdan Anderson to the man who owned him, Colonel P.H. Anderson has drawn a lot of attention  in 1965 was posted on several sites and even became the top story at Yahoo News. In the letter Jourdan Anderson offers a smart retort to P.H. Anderson’s request that he come […]

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, in conjunction with the National Museum of American History, unveiled a new exhibit on Friday that features one of the nation’s Founding Fathers. The exhibit, “Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty,” turns a focus on the contradictory stances of Thomas Jefferson and his slave ownership. […]

ATLANTA-Students at Camp Creek Elementary School in Lilburn, Georgia claim that a teacher organized a tag like slave and slave catcher game. While school officials admit that students did play a slavery-based game at recess, they deny that a teacher organized the activity. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Ericka Lasley told Channel 2 that her 8-year-old […]

ATLANTA-Third grade students in Gwinnett County, Ga., were given math homework with references to slavery and beatings, and a spokesman claims that the questions were made to incorporate social studies into the math curriculum. One math problem was: “Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave […]

A convicted murderer has filed suit in federal court against the Kilby Correctional Facility in  Alabama , claiming they have unjustly kept a book titled “Slavery By Another Name,” out of his hands. According to Mark Melvin’s lawsuit, prison officials seemed the book — a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of the brutal treatment of black prisoners […]

A convicted murderer has filed suit in federal court against the Kilby Correctional Facility in Alabama , claiming they have unjustly kept a book titled “Slavery By Another Name,” out of his hands. According to Mark Melvin’s lawsuit, prison officials saw the book — a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of the brutal treatment of Black prisoners […]

RICHMOND — If you’re looking for some clues to your ancestry, you may find them in Virginia. The Virginia Historical Society has launched a new database with over 1,500 searchable slave names. The database, Unknown No Longer, which appears on their site, can find the slave names based on keywords such as name, gender, location, occupation and plantation. […]

PETA will begin showcasing an exhibit in the Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. this September, that will use depictions of slavery, and other historic oppressions of human beings, as a comparison to animal cruelty. “Child labor, human slavery, and the oppression of women all came to be opposed by our society, thanks to the […]

A sweeping, high-profile, and ambitious musical film, ‘The Underground Railroad’ blends two powerful, redemptive stories into the background of Gospel/blues songs. The first story tells about a slave, Samuel Woodward, who escapes with his family to Canada. On their heels, is an obsessed slave hunter, JD Plimpton, who has never lost a slave. Along the […]