When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations advocates want to try again in 2026.

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

The Senate had passed the Amendment on April 8, 1864. Ganson, who was born in Le Roy, represented the 30th Congressional ...

Abraham Lincoln’s firm resolve during his last days demonstrated his enduring commitment to the common good', A CT historian writes.

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

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When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed suit and immediately started using prisons like Folsom and San Quentin to ...

The recently declared war on egalitarianism in the Federal government is yet another reminder that there is little new under ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...