This claim regarding the Harris heritage received renewed interest following the VP's announcement of her candidacy for U.S.

He sold his own enslaved daughter for $1,800 to a man who wanted her to bear more enslaved children, according to an account written by James Watkins, who managed to escape slavery. Worthington ...

A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children ...

Founded by Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic Party (Democratic-Republican Party) is the oldest political party in the US.

The author had perused the censuses of the respective states from 1800 to 1840. During the early years of the era, population ...

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. But when the kindness and ...

Slavery was not "effectively ended" in Rhode ... started as a combination printing press and house. By the 1800s, the printing press was gone, but it was still a house. From the 1850s until ...

At least seven states have taken slavery exceptions out of their constitutions. In California and Nevada, so-called slavery "loopholes" are on this year's ballot. Much like the 13th Amendment in ...

Augusta University is hosting a decades-old symposium led by a pair of nationally recognized historians. Its topic is most ...

There are no confirmed images but plenty of documented references about husband and wife Charley and Kate Thorpe, former ...

A cyclist was shocked to receive a more than $1,800 bill from an ambulance that ran him over and took him to a hospital.