Slavery is often described as a dark chapter that ended with abolition laws and moral awakening, yet history tells a more complicated story. While legal slavery was formally outlawed in many nations ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The ugliest chapter of American history, slavery, started earlier than you might think, in the early days of the New England colonies. Not only did some colonists ...

The initiatives to address Tufts’ connections to slavery are broad and growing in strength. As previous and current Tufts students contribute to conversations and scholarship surrounding Tufts’ ...

*Segregation, redlining, exclusion and other discriminatory factors have always been effective tools used by government and private institutions to establish inequality as a part of our society. Since ...

Ira Berlin, a historian whose research and acclaimed books helped reveal the complexities of American slavery and its aftermath, died on Tuesday in Washington. He was 77. The cause was complications ...