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.

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...

After Madam Efurunoye Tinubu made a fortune from selling slaves she made a u-turn to stop the selling of humans. Sadly, she lost two sons to malaria while in Badagry — a famed slave port in Nigeria ...

FILE - A Citibank office is seen in New York on Jan. 13, 2021. Some of the companies that formed what is now Citigroup likely benefitted financially from slavery in the 1800s, the financial giant ...

Slaves William and Ellen Craft’s dangerous journey to freedom in the mid-1800s. David Wright interviews best-selling author Ilyon Woo about her new book, "Master Slave Husband Wife." Woo tells the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Slavery is a dark part of American history, but it’s a history that can’t be overlooked. One Memphis church is working to make sure it isn’t, and now it has a big boost to advance ...

What's notable about this Bible is not just its rarity, but its contents, or rather the lack of certain contents — It excludes any portion of... Slave Bible From The 1800s Omitted Key Passages That ...

There is no telling what you will find searching through old Carroll County records. Recently the name Bernard M. Campbell popped up in books dating to the 1850s and early 1860s. Following Campbell’s ...

More than two centuries ago, an enslaved man named Gabriel was making final preparations to lead a revolt in Richmond that he hoped would spur the end of slavery. He was smart, he was armed and he was ...

NEW YORK – Some of the companies that formed what is now Citigroup likely benefitted financially from slavery in the 1800's, the financial giant acknowledged Thursday, an admission that comes at a ...