The National Slavery Museum faces a daunting philanthropic challenge. Executive Director Earl Yates said officials are just beginning the effort to raise the $200 million cost in a tightening economy.

The theme of the United States National Slavery Museum: reconciliation, not recrimination. That's what L. Douglas Wilder, former governor of Virginia and present mayor of Richmond, stressed at ...

Deep in the territory of the old Confederacy, a new historical edifice will soon begin rising — the first national museum in the United States devoted to the subject of black slavery.

Christened the United States National Slavery Museum, it was to be built on 38 acres along the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg, Va. Wilder, the grandson of slaves, commissioned C. C. Pei, a ...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Near battlefields where soldiers fought to preserve slavery, a solemn stone figure stands, arms out-stretched, face turned skyward as if rejoicing over the broken shackles e ...

Gov. Bob McDonnell’s motion to dedicate $11 million for a slavery museum — seconded by his successor-in-waiting, Terry McAuliffe — is welcome news. It provides a much-needed funding jolt to ...

Near battlefields in Fredericksburg, Va., where soldiers fought to preserve slavery, a solemn stone figure stands, arms outstretched, face turned skyward as if rejoicing over the broken shackles ...

Despite ambivalence from some on the topic, the institution’s latest leader “knew that slavery had to be at the heart of the museum.” By Ginanne Brownell On a Sunday stroll up 16th Street in ...

The International Slavery Museum and Maritime Museum renovation project is being financed by a $12 million grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and another fund of equal value from the ...