While on an artists’ retreat at a former slave plantation, our columnist Eirinie Carson muses on history’s worst moments – ...

Judge throws the book at a West Virginia couple convicted of treating adopted Black kids as ‘slaves’ - In January, a jury ...

The status of blacks in Virginia slowly changed over the last half of the 17th century. The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave.

A judge in Virginia has ruled that frozen embryos are not a property that can be divided up despite a previous ruling stating ...

A Virginia judge ruled that human embryos are not property, despite a court having previously ruled that embryos could be ...

Slavery was a common and ubiquitous part of life on the grounds that would become Conyers’s alma mater, Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia. That land was where William and Catherine ...

A Northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a previous analysis by the ...

Thomas Roderick Dew, an alumnus turned professor by 1826, and by 1836, the school's thirteenth president, was recognized as one of the country's foremost experts on pro-slavery thought. Following Nat ...

William & Mary is part of the long history of slavery in Virginia and the United States and slavery is part of its history. Enslaved men, women and children saw the initial construction, destruction ...

Slaves in the Family. New York ... and genetic evidence - Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings. This University of Virginia project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the ...

The status of blacks in Virginia slowly changed over the last half of the 17th century. The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave.