Juneteenth Freedom Celebration, Poughkeepsie: Celebrate freedom, culture and community with music, dance, food, drinks, games ...

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. The Thirteenth Amendment ...

Juneteenth is often described as the day “slavery ended in Texas,” but the truth behind it tells a deeper, more sobering ...

While President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery went into effect Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn’t until ...

The rare document could fetch $8 million.

The handbill that informed slaves in Texas of their freedom was given out June 19, 1865, more than two years after President ...