In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, tensions in the country mounted over the issue of slavery. By 1830, there were more than 2 million slaves in the United States, worth over a billion ...

My former colleague, Susan Schulten, whose history of geography in the United States is both fantastic and still the industry standard, recently completed an essay for a new edited collection about ...

A map shows the distribution of the slave population in the Southern states of the United States, based on the 1860 census. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division As the 2016 election ...

The California state task force on reparations for Black residents voted on March 22 to limit eligibility to individuals whose lineage could be traced to enslavement in America. While this ...

A collaboration between CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis and Digital Slavery Research Lab aims to regenerate identities using statsitics. Conflicts among African ...

Harper's had many southern subscribers and, in the years leading up to the Civil War, it "took a decidedly neutral stance toward the issue of slavery, prompting some critics to label it Harper's ...

The author of a historical map showing locations of slave-trading sites in Shockoe Bottom has asked Richmond officials to stop using it in public presentations that make the case for a Shockoe ...