It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For nations, like people, distant memory of trauma can be submerged and ...

The Declaration of Independence accused the king and Parliament of Great Britain of "exciting domestic insurrections" among the half-million people enslaved in the American colonies. This was a ...

A constitutional crisis, a nation divided, a president testing his powers. I’m referring to Abraham Lincoln, of course — which Republican did you think I meant? With the United States these days ...

"We went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about. I never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery. Men fight from sentiment. After the fight is over they invent some ...

Cahoon, of Boones Mill, is a retired civil engineer. The purpose of Confederate History Month is careful study and civil dialogue of all aspects of the conflict. When one tries to enlighten the public ...

For Harpham’s explanation of how England came to view the enslavement of others as both a violation of nature and a legitimate institution, all roads ultimately lead back to Rome, and Roman law in ...