Sex trafficking, like forced labor, is a contemporary form of slavery. I am an academic who studies the mindset of slaveholders to understand more fully their rationale for what they do, in hopes of ...

Students in Connecticut were not spared a racist text message that has been received by children across the country ...

In both Hadley and Northampton, as well in as other communities throughout the Connecticut River Valley, Black women were among those enslaved by the region’s European settlers in the 1600s and by ...

Cuff Smith was born into slavery in Rhode Island. In 1769, Cuff's freedom was purchased by his father, Venture Smith, for $200. The family settled in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. When he was in his ...

John Brown is born in Torrington, Connecticut. His father, Owen, a strict Calvinist, hated slavery and believed that holding humans in bondage was a sin against God. 1812 The War of 1812 ...