Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.

Juneteenth is observed on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. It is also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day. Here's everything you need to know about Juneteenth: ...

In 1860, a United States census counted nearly four million enslaved people living in the country. The Civil War was fought between abolitionists and the pro-slavery Confederacy, until the ...

Its curator of American Slavery, Mary Elliott, cowrote the history of slavery ... The Stono Rebellion was only one of many rebellions that occurred over the 246 years of slavery in the United States.

Cornell professor Sandra Greene, a black scholar of African history, notes, “Slavery in the United States ended in 1865, but in West Africa it was not legally ended until 1875, and then it ...

History News Network. ... His latest book is Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 (University of Georgia, 2015). More Must-Reads from TIME.

The U.S. Coast Survey map calculated the number of slaves in each county in the United States in 1860. Library of Congress In September of 1861, the U.S. Coast Survey published a large map ...

People across the United States marked Juneteenth on Thursday, the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Texas were told of their emancipation two years earlier. For the Black Heritage Trail ...

In December 1865, the 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1866, freedmen in Texas organized the first "Jubilee Day" to commemorate the event.

On Jan. 1, 1863, the president of the United States issued one of the most important executive orders in American history: Proclamation 95, more commonly known as the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Slavery was still allowed in states that did not secede from the United States, including Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky. Maryland abolished slavery on Nov. 1, 1864, and Missouri did ...

Slavery may be illegal in the United States, but there are still 58,000 working there in conditions that can only be described as such, according to the Global Slavery Index (GSI). “It’s true ...