From the 1500s to the 1800s it is estimated that one million white Europeans, to include those captured at sea as well as through land raids abroad were enslaved. Many of these were Americans captured ...

The lawsuit accuses the suspect's parents of being negligent by "failing to appropriately control and supervise their minor son." ...

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

Continuing its meetings of community meetings of interest, Scrubgrass Grange will host a program on human trafficking at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 18.

Under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, an enslaver who tracked down an escaped slave could—often assisted by bounty hunters—seize the escapee and drag them before any judge or magistrate.

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the ...

Chinese-born Lin Liang Ren, 29, from Liverpool, was convicted at Preston Crown Court of manslaughter. The gangmaster, girlfriend Zhao Xiao Qing and cousin Lin Mu Yong were also convicted of ...

As the surviving assignee of bankrupt slave trader John Tarleton, Hornby counterclaimed for 46 slaves in St Lucia. He was awarded £1,299, four shillings, and five pence in January 1838.

Even before Highsmith's injury, Preston Smith was going to be an important piece for Pittsburgh and he didn't take long to show why in his first game donning the black and yellow.

The Pittsburgh Steelers unsurprising added wide receiver Mike Williams before the NFL trade deadline on November 5. But the Steelers turned heads by also acquiring edge rusher Preston Smith .

New Steelers LB Preston Smith revealed on Wednesday that he requested a trade from the Packers due to their 4-3 defensive system.