American slavery is commonly understood to have peaked in the late 18th century and was outlawed by the U.S. in the mid-19th century following the Civil War. The practice of slavery in the 17th ...

The 17th century has gone down in Dutch history as the Golden Age. But the grim flip side of the prosperity, fortunes generated by seafaring traders, slavery and iron-fisted colonial rulers, is ...

The 17th-century home is just one of Colonial Williamsburg’s latest finds. Earlier this year, archaeologists unearthed the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War.