The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and Australia, where victims of "blackbirding" endured horrific working conditi ...

and of slaves' struggles for agency over their own lives in the pre-Civil War South. Summing up: highly recommended.' T. K. Byron Source: Choice 'Deeply researched, elegantly conceived, and adroitly ...

We’ve reported on some of the horrific crimes being perpetrated by the warring parties before. In the conflict between the ...

Settlers from the South wanted to move to the West and take their enslaved workers with them Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery As new states were created, the issue of slavery ...

But in a new study, we tackled this challenge by focusing on one of the few groups of Americans for whom such information ...

As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil War is a period many would like to forget. However, it’s impossible ...

The southern states feared that the new Republican Party, led by President Abraham Lincoln, would try to end slavery in the South ... Civil War was even over, and it became law six months after ...

Sudanese women tell Human Rights Watch that RSF paramilitaries, one side in a grueling civil war, are subjecting them to horrific sexual violence.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - Hours after Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley did not mention slavery ... South Carolinian shocked by Nicki Haley’s refusal to define the Civil War as ...

America fought a Civil War where slavery was at the forefront. But, our United States, after the Civil War, had a plan in the 13th Amendment. Slavery, at least in the United States, would be ...