The John Hay Library is displaying a pair of slave shackles, on loan from the International Slavery Museum, in a glass case at the entrance of the first-floor reading room. The iron shackles are a ...

MAYVILLE — During the fall in 2021, the Historical Society of the New York Courts, in collaboration with the New York State Courts, began a 90-week tour to 45 courthouses across New York State of The ...

Michigan State law professor Justin Simard says 18% of all published American cases are within two steps of a slave case. His team has spent years... Slave cases are still cited as good law across the ...

This story starts — but certainly doesn't end — in 19th century Maryland, when John Townshend updated his will. Townshend grew convinced at the end of his life that God would punish him if he did not ...