Maine’s seafaring history marred by long-ignored, disgraceful chapter

There’s new attention to Maine’s role in the slave trade of the 1800s, and on Friday a national expert will discuss how a Portland ship captain became one of the most notorious participants.

How did we lose a president's daughter?

To Ben Carson: Slaves were not immigrants

Black History lesson: Africans were free, then enslaved

U.K. police: 3 women held captive for 30 years

Leonard Pitts: Carson statement a cheap, rhetorical stunt

Maine gets mixed reviews in annual human trafficking report