Small African American boys of the eighteenth and ... Martha Washington at the end of 1800 freed those slaves who had belonged to him, including Letty, her three children (baby Nila and young ...

One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made record keeping nearly impossible. Because African-American slaves were ...

King Charles III Thursday acknowledged a painful past of Britain and the royal family's profiting from human slavery, but did ...

This distinctive type of ceramic face vessel first appeared in the American South in the mid-1800s. Jugs such as these are attributed to a small number of black slaves working as potters in the ...

She discovered her third great-grandfather, Albartis Arnwine, owned several enslaved Black women in the mid-1800s ... an exhibit called A Slave's Story by the African American Museum of Southern ...