President Trump is not just unraveling a system of government, he's denying the American Creed, the truths we have considered ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the document that articulated the principle of human rights endowed by the Creator (thereby ultimately ensuring the end of slavery ...

If Jefferson had had his way, according to his memoir, which he began writing in 1821 at age 77, slavery would have been phased out long before blood was shed to end it. His plan, he claimed ...

In his first version of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote a scathing ... frequently submitted petitions seeking an end to slavery, but the legislature tabled each one.

In Jefferson’s second term, he finally signed the end of the international slave trade, taking effect in 1808, though ...

Alabama Democrats have pushed over the years to make Juneteenth a state holiday. Givan has introduced a bill each year since ...

Speakers at the "Beyond Slavery" conference spoke on the following topics related to sexual violence in the era of slavery and Jim Crow. The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover ...

PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): We're talking about Thomas Jefferson and the cover of ... you feel guilty and not so great about America, at the end there's a gift shop where you can buy Ibram X.

In the musical, Hamilton is portrayed as being a firm abolitionist, someone who wanted to end slavery. He furiously accuses Thomas Jefferson of using slave labour to pay off the South’s debts ...

And the man who wrote those words, Thomas Jefferson ... But by the episode's end, the transformation to a system of racial slavery is complete. On the eve of the American Revolution slavery ...