Long Island had the largest slave population of any rural or urban area in the North for most of the colonial era. For almost two centuries, New York was a slave colony and Long Island was a slave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, ...

A state commission hosted a hearing Saturday as it continues working on a report that lawmakers will use to consider ...

Below are the stories of the national Edward R. Murrow Award-winning series "Slavery on Long Island: The History That We Forget To Remember", produced by students at the Stony Brook University School ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

A Rhode Island town that was a center of the transatlantic slave trade is commemorating Juneteenth by unveiling a new marker recognizing its role in slavery. Officials on Saturday were placing the ...

LLOYD NECK, N.Y.-- The horrors of slavery are unimaginable. One enslaved man on Long Island in the 18th century gave us a rare glimpse into his views on slavery and freedom in poetry. CBS New York's ...

Brown Confronts Slavery, Second in a series. Though the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice was expected to submit its report to President Ruth Simmons this spring, it is unclear when ...

At one point in history, New York City ranked only second to Charleston, South Carolina in U.S. cities that held the most slaves. Now, the bustling hub is home to one of the most violent jail ...