Slavery

A Connecticut woman who said she's descended from slaves shown in widely-published, historical photos owned by Harvard, can sue the Ivy League university for emotional distress.

James Lindsey Smith, a man enslaved in Virginia’s Northern Neck region on the Chesapeake Bay, made his way to freedom 184 years ago — and eventually to Norwich, Connecticut. Inspired by that journey and Smith’s determination, a group of men from the Castle Hill Church in Norwich attempted to retrace his steps back.

The inaugural class of eight high school students, who are residents of either Long Island, Brooklyn or Queens, were each awarded $10,000.

Juneteenth celebrates the day in 1865 when enslaved people were finally freed in Texas, the last state in the nation to comply with the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Lincoln two years earlier.

The $5,000 per semester scholarship is open to Black, African American or Caribbean American descendants of enslaved people.

Students at Stony Brook University on Long Island look at the history, and ramifications, of slavery on Long Island through this podcast.

The town of Manchester, Connecticut, has made Juneteenth an official town holiday.Juneteenth is meant to commemorate the day in 1865 that the last…

The arrival of the first enslaved people in Suffolk County in 1654 marks only the beginning of a long, often intentionally ignored, chapter in Long Island…

John Jay College of Criminal Justice has created New York’s first database of slavery records. The online index is free to use and lets people access…

A social studies textbook was pulled from public schools in Norwalk and drew attention from the United Nations because it said slaves in Connecticut were…