A slave could become free by converting to Christianity. The first Virginia colonists did ... One of the few recorded histories of an African in America that we can glean from early court records ...

click image for close-up American illustrator Howard Pyle ... come by way of the Caribbean Islands. In 1655, the first large shipment of slaves directly from Africa arrived at New Amsterdam.

The Charleston peninsula's three historically Black Episcopal churches, St. Mark's, St. Stephen's and Calvary, lamented ...

But formal systems of slavery and racial separation did become established in later years as the number of Africans brought over to America began to grow. Were they the first slaves taken to the ...

Getty Images August 2019 marks 400 years since enslaved Africans were first brought ... benefited from the slave trade. "Slavery was an overwhelmingly important fact of the American economy ...

Tajanae Harris, left, a descendant of a slave, met Rebecca Bradshaw for the first time this week after learning that Bradshaw ...

What was special about America was not that it had slavery ... only one parent as common at any time during the first 100 years after slavery as in the first 30 years after the great expansion ...

Whatever idea of civility and morality America wanted to project to ... considered the forebear of narratives on chattel ...

In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation ...

America established its own caste system, with Virginia establishing the first slave codes in 1705. These codes quickly ...

Patricia Kilby-Robb, a retired educator, gives a tour of the James Wilson Kilby African American Museum on Shenandoah Shores ...

The Republicans are largely associated with conservative values of white supremacy, anti-immigration, anti-abortion etc. At ...