Although Juneteenth is generally seen as the end of slavery in the U.S., the reality is actually more complicated.

Almost surrounded as she is by Free States, and permeated by the wind ... now hardly come into the same social category with the Slave States at all; for in the former of these States the ...

Maryland and Kentucky, whom no threats have been able to force, no intrigue to juggle from their loyalty, are both Slave States. Do State lines and State rights mark out these lines? Where then ...

The Dobbs decision, which gives states complete control over abortion laws, has unleashed conflicts that resemble the battles that arose when enslaved people fled slave states for free states ...

While Vermont's legislature was the first state to abolish adult slavery in 1777, its constitution stated that no person 21 or older should serve as a slave unless bound by their own consent or ...

But it included loopholes to allow enslavers in slave-holding states to reclaim runaways seeking safe harbour in free states, and it used the language saying that people who had been convicted ...

The 19th century Mason-Dixon Line marked the boundary between slave states in the South and free states in the North. With the Friday ruling overturning Roe V. Wade, the six conservative justices ...

The State Department estimates ... and each raises awareness and money to help free slaves in Sudan. While we may ask ourselves what we are doing about slavery today, these children are not ...

Jean Pfaelzer thought she knew what injustice looked like. A longtime professor of American studies at the University of Delaware, the L.A. native forged her political consciousness at UC Berkeley ...

Voters in four states have approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fifth state ...

Voters in three states approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fourth state ...

Voters in four states have approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fifth state ...