Juneteenth celebrations unfolded across the U.S. on Thursday, marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of ...

Although Juneteenth is generally seen as the end of slavery in the U.S., the reality is actually more complicated.

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...

Letter writers discuss history of Juneteenth, Holocaust exhibit in Virginia Beach and gubernatorial candidate Abigail ...

We don't need to party like it's 1865. But we can celebrate the end of slavery with America's greatest abolitionist.

Britain, which forcibly transported more than three million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean for over 300 years, abolished slavery in 1833. The United States, where around 388,000 of ...

The case led to the end of slavery in Massachusetts. About a decade later no one reported to the census that they owned slaves. Shepperson said she has something in common with Freeman.

LEXINGTON — In a town synonymous with American independence, people gathered Saturday to celebrate the man who formally ended slavery in Massachusetts by freeing himself from bondage during the ...

Genealogists have located a direct descendant of Elizabeth Freeman, a formerly enslaved woman whose 1781 freedom lawsuit helped abolish slavery in Massachusetts.

Harriet and Lewis Hayden left in 1844 with the help of the Underground Railroad and became prominent abolitionists in Boston, ...