While I breathe, I hope. South Carolina’s motto, as always, hurls us headlong with joy and optimism into the New Year. My ...

A confederate memorial to Robert E. Lee is now sitting in Marion Square, but questions have arisen about how the tribute to ...

After the Wednesday meeting of the city of Charleston’s history commission – the first since the sudden December appearance ...

Sensing the dangers of tyranny by the majority, John C. Calhoun developed the doctrine of the concurrent majority which ...

Four Kansas counties bear the names of leaders in the battle to preserve slavery while a Kansas school district has the name ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.

Police described it as the largest multiple murder in the history of Union County, New Jersey. On the night of Dec. 7, 1971, two patrolmen peered inside the window of a run-down Victorian mansion to ...

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.