CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Within the walls of The Old Slave Mart, there are newspapers dated back to the 19th century. They showcase front page ads of enslaved people without a voice. "Slavery and ...

Nearly a decade ago, Boston’s Old North Church opened a Colonial-themed chocolate shop named for Captain Newark Jackson, a prominent early member of the historic church and a pillar of Boston’s ...

WALLACE, La. (AP) — Ceramic sculptures of hollow-eyed slave children haunt the Whitney Plantation, west of New Orleans, where owner John Cummings has infused the traditional antebellum plantation tour ...

What started as a quick stop on the side of the road turned into one of the largest slave cemeteries we’ve ever seen. As we walked deeper, sunken graves, fieldstones, and poured concrete markers began ...

A Virginia judge has ruled that embryos can legally be classified as property or “chattel” — a decision with echoes of slavery in the U.S. Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Richard Gardiner partially ...

The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park will expose visitors to 170-year-old slave dwellings from cotton plantations, holding pens, and more. A groundbreaking new site, the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park ...

The street in west St. Louis County is situated at the site of two plantations where more than 100 enslaved people lived before the Civil War. With one of its previous opponents gone and the same ...

The Old Slave Mart Museum on Chalmers Street occupies a building that once was part of a complex of structures known as Ryan’s Mart. It included a barracoon (slave jail), dead house (morgue), kitchen ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg on Friday unveiled and dedicated two new historical markers describing the history of the Old Slave Mart downtown. The dedication event was ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — If you’ve taken a trip to America’s Oldest City, you’ve most likely seen the Old Slave Market at the east end of the plaza. However, the realities of what happened there nearly ...