The victim's foster mother says K still has scars around her mouth from the ordeal. The victim's foster mother says Wixon "took advantage" of K's learning disability, forcing her to work around the ...

KITTERY, Maine — Residents are digging into the town’s ties to the transatlantic slave trade and Kittery Point’s status as a documented arrival port for ships carrying enslaved people. Two plaques ...

In the latest turn of events, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration wrongly removed historic panels about people George Washington enslaved at the President’s House in Philadelphia. A ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A vivid rumor began circulating in the United States in the middle of ...

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett raised eyebrows last week when she compared President Donald Trump to a domestic abuser, suggested that the tactics displayed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

The woman kept the victim "in squalid conditions; locking her in the house and depriving her of food, health and dental care," police said Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — There are major plans underway for a once controversial corner in downtown Fredericksburg. A permanent memorial is planned for the site of the former slave auction block.

Former Israeli hostage Romi Gonen said she endured repeated sexual assault, harassment and intimidation during her 471 days of Hamas captivity, speaking publicly for the first time about her ...

CNN host Jake Tapper pressed Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Tuesday about remarks made last year in a Vanity Fair article, when she said the way Latinos talk about immigration reminds her of the ...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, denied believing that Hispanic Trump voters had a "slave mentality" when asked about her past claims on Tuesday. CNN's Jake Tapper reminded the Texas Senate candidate ...

When the slave ship Zorg set sail for the Caribbean from the African island of São Tomé on Sept. 6, 1781, it embarked on a horrific journey that would ultimately awaken a movement to end England’s ...

As Suriname celebrates 50 years of independence, the spectre of Dutch colonial rule and its role in the slave trade still lingers. The king and queen of the Netherlands touched down in the small South ...