The book is based on two decades of research into abolition, universal freedom and justice. In it, I explore the role played ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY — The Douglas County Historical Society is sponsoring a presentation by Dr. Bob Zybach on his research into the life of Letitia Carson, a freed slave who accomplished unusual things for ...

The day after Election Day, Black Americans across nearly a dozen states started receiving text messages telling them they ...

In the June 3, 1845, issue of Cassius Marcellus Clay’s The True American ... 1800 to 1840. During the early years of the era, ...

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

“American Odysseys of the 1800s” is the theme for the free film series for November in the Packard Campus Theater in Culpeper. Movies show at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights with a 2 p.m. matinee ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — A new digital mapping system is shedding light on historic cemeteries in the Charleston area, many of which have ties to the 1800s and African American heritage.

The earliest record of an African-American in the Gem State dates back to the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805. York, Clark’s slave, was part of the expedition and attracted attention from the ...

Oct. 25 (UPI) --King Charles III acknowledged a "painful" past of Britain and the royal family's profiting from human slavery, but did not support financial reparations payments at a Samoan summit ...

From the early 1800s until the 1970s ... In 2008, the US House of Representatives apologised for 246 years of African American slavery and the oppressive Jim Crow laws. The Senate passed a ...

We all appreciate this, the horrendous impact that the Transatlantic slave business had on the African diaspora and ... the Americas between the 1500s and 1800s, saying acknowledgment was ...

"If you're a foreign competitor working in China, [you're] using literal Chinese slave labor at $3 a day. An American middle class worker is never going to be able to compete on cost alone – we ...