Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve taken a trip to America’s Oldest City, you’ve most likely seen the Old Slave Market at the east end of the plaza.

The main reason people come to visit the Old North Church in Boston’s historic North End is to see the famous steeple where two lanterns signaled to Americans Paul Revere’s famous cries that “the ...

The Old North Church, a famed stop on Boston's Freedom Trail and a symbol of American liberty, reckons with its ugly history of trafficking enslaved people, including children. Boston's Old North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Virginia judge has ruled that embryos can legally be classified as property or “chattel” — a decision with echoes of slavery in ...

NMAF copy 39088019259811 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Within the walls of The Old Slave Mart, there are newspapers dated back to the 19th century. They showcase front page ads of enslaved people without a voice. "Slavery and ...

With one of its previous opponents gone and the same sentiment among some determined Wildwood, Missouri residents — that they are sick of waking up in houses located on a street seemingly named for ...

Nearly a decade ago, Boston’s Old North Church opened a Colonial-themed chocolate shop named for Captain Newark Jackson, a prominent early member of the historic church and a pillar of Boston’s ...

Susan Ross was a 3-year-old slave living in Texas when her family learned they were free. Even as a child, she remembered how excited her older brother was when he received the news. “When my oldest ...

(CNN) -- The main reason people come to visit the Old North Church in Boston's historic North End is to see the famous steeple where two lanterns signaled to Americans Paul Revere's famous cries that ...