Slavery

Advocates are using a proposed constitutional amendment to teach Vermonters about the connection between slavery and modern-day racial disparities.

Joy Banner's family took shelter in a house on a plantation their ancestors helped build. "They were not able to have this kind of house for their own protection when a hurricane hit them," she says.

A panel is now weighing how to honor a Black woman enslaved by a former Vermont Supreme Court justice in 1800s Windsor. VPR checks in with Valley News…

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Jeffrey Brace was a Vermont farmer, husband and father, a Revolutionary War veteran, and near the end of his…

In 1859, Harriet E. Wilson published a book about life as an indentured servant in New Hampshire. It remains an obscure classic because it challenges white ideals about racism in the North.

In the 250th year since its founding, Dartmouth College is confronting its history of profiting from the labor, sale and purchase of enslaved people. The…

In 1777, Vermont’s constitution outlawed slavery. But it turns out people continued to be enslaved for a number of years after that.We’ll talk to UVM…