The new six-episode documentary series 'Thomas Jefferson' examines the third president's legacy of racism and his supposed early plan for emancipation GraphicaArtis/Getty Imagine a world where the ...

Both men were Northerners. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed from Virginia and considered slavery an “evil” practice, but owned hundreds of them. George Washington wrote his will ...

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

Thomas Jefferson has shades of the History docuseries ... has come under fire in recent years because of his history with slavery, along with the family he created with Hemmings.

Thomas Jefferson has shades of the History docuseries ... has come under fire in recent years because of his history with slavery, along with the family he created with Hemmings.

When we think of Thomas Jefferson, our third president ... out that he was a politician who railed against the evils of slavery in print, while keeping hundreds of slaves on his plantation ...

At a 1962 dinner for Nobel Prize winners, John F. Kennedy declared the event the greatest collection of talent ever brought together at the White House, “with the possible exception of when ...

Both men were Northerners. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed from Virginia and considered slavery an “evil” practice, but owned hundreds of them. George Washington left slaves for ...