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

Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather are about to find out what it was like for their adopted children who lived in squalor, ...

A West Virginia judge tears into the "reprehensible and narcissistic" defense of the white couple she says have shown no remorse nor apologized for the allegations of abuse of the adopted Black ...

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

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 ...

Virginia and the Forging of a Nation” opens in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech made at St. John's Church in Richmond.

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 ...

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.