As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...

The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed.

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

I was also gripped by Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Cape, £22) – a philosophical novel masquerading as a bizarre dystopia of ...

Contrary to popular progressive opinion, slaves did not build America. Rather, the institution of slavery harmed America ...

Carl Joe Williams, an artist from New Orleans, created a painting for the Victoria Mansion that addresses the slave-owning ...

The Trump administration has restored a memorial to Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators took it ...

A proposal to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the burial grounds for enslaved people is sparking public outcry ...

Between 10 and 12 million Africans were torn from their homelands and shipped across the Atlantic. The transatlantic slave ...

When Frederick Douglass spoke in Cork on October 23, 1845, his message was clear and uncompromising. The formerly enslaved ...

Black theology in the Americas begins here: not in pulpits or printed tracts, but in the survival strategies of the displaced. Its earliest witnesses show that theology is not an abstract system but a ...

The Philadelphian came to see that the ideals he championed — liberty, self-determination, human dignity — could not coexist ...