The University of Edinburgh benefited financially from transatlantic slavery and served as a haven for scholars developing ...

By the time American Net and Twine built its East Cambridge factory in the mid-1870s, many Southern Blacks were caught in the ...

Friday on the RCP Podcast, Andrew Walworth spoke to economic historian Phillip W. Magness about his new book: "The 1619 ...

The transatlantic slave trade was outlawed in 1808 and slavery was in decline before Eli Whitney invented the labor-saving gin to separate white cotton fibers from seeds.

That completing slave trader was Nathan Bedford Forrest. By 1858, his was the largest slave trading firm in Memphis. Bill Carey is executive director of Tennessee History for Kids .

Two west suburban high schools are under fire for a cotton lesson that is part of their teachings on slavery in American History classes. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West ...

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is coming under fire for recent comments he made about U.S. history in which he claimed that the Founding Fathers considered slavery a "necessary evil." Cotton made the ...

Sen. Tom Cotton described the institution of slavery in America as a “necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as (Abraham) Lincoln said, to put slavery ...