This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A vivid rumor began circulating in the United States in the middle of ...

In this adapted excerpt from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met ...

The woman kept the victim "in squalid conditions; locking her in the house and depriving her of food, health and dental care," police said Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

A woman has been found guilty of keeping another woman with learning difficulties captive for 25 years and using her as a slave. Mother-of-10 Mandy Wixon, 56, made the vulnerable woman clean her ...

Although generations have passed since the American Civil War, slavery’s past still taunts Black Americans in the form of Confederate flags and southern plantations. In fact, there remains hundreds of ...

On the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in ...

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Vice President Kamala Harris descended from an infamous Irish slave owner who actively worked against abolition. The presidential hopeful’s paternal great-grandmother, Christiana Brown, is a ...

The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...

They didn’t know how bad it was. That was how James Redpath, a northern journalist who toured the South in the 1850s, explained white southern women’s support for slavery to his readers. He reckoned ...