Uncle Tom's Cabin

Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer.

Over the course of her 83 years, the megawatt star that was Tina Turner kept telling us who she was in the hopes that we would see her — all of her.

Black Germans have used activism and scholarship to shed light on what they describe as Germany’s racist fascination with the American South.

Baptists were never monolithic on the issue of slavery, but Southern Baptists were united in their opposition to Northern Baptists determining their beliefs.

Why some antebellum reformers thought convents were incompatible with "true womanhood."

Born into slavery, this preacher and Underground Railroad conductor served as the inspiration for a history-making book.

Before Stowe's famous novel, a formerly enslaved African-American living in Canada wrote a memoir detailing his experience.

Today, very few white Americans openly celebrate the horrors of black enslavement—most refuse to recognize the brutal nature of the institution or activ...