With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

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 ...

1792-1821: 6 new slave states enter the United States: Kentucky (1792), Tennessee (1796); Louisiana (1812), Mississippi (1817), Alabama (1819), and Missouri (1821) Territory north of 36 degrees 30 ...

While the United States has never implemented a widespread slavery reparations program, the tide might be turning as several ...