It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas, “filled with Biblical and historical images, with many ...

In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the vision of ...

One Thousand Years of Slavery, a riveting new docu-series exploring the legacy of slavery and how our shared history can create a better future, will air on Smithsonian Channel in 2022. Watch Full ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — 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 through a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The city of Richmond carries a legacy tethered to the formation of the United States of America. Many of our founding fathers spent time in Richmond, but it also played a key ...

He spoke at a museum where millions of African slaves were baptized. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, during his diplomatic trip to Angola, acknowledged America's "original sin" of slavery and the ...