Chautauqua County was home to more than 1,100 anti-slavery activists between 1835 and 1860, the period leading up to the ...

Visit historic places and surprising sites of Black culture in eight states with many family-friendly attractions for all ...

Rep. Lauren Carson and Rep. Terri Cortvriend will host an upcoming virtual Aquidneck Island Climate Caucus conversation with ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

During Black History Month, it is important to look at how far the education system for Black people has come. When slavery ...

so Mendenhall legally procured the freedom of his slaves. Sherman Ampey is the great-great grandson of James who was born about 1793 in Richmond, Va., but worked as an overseer on the farm of ...

Black people came to Jamestown in 1619 not as slaves, but as indentured servants, as reported by PBS’s “History Detectives” show, “Indentured Servants in the U.S.” The idea of indentured servitude was ...

Gaiman called Pavlovich “slave” and ordered her to call him “master,” the complaint states. The lawsuit claims that the couple intentionally withheld Pavlovich’s pay to keep her as an ...

I served as the lead historian and researcher for an exhibition where three of these portraits are now on display, “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World,” at the Smithsonian ...

One such truth is that while slavery was legally abolished, a loophole in the 13th Amendment allowed it to persist in another form. What followed was a deliberate effort to keep Black Americans in ...

JAMESTOWN, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – A Jamestown woman died of injuries she suffered in a two vehicle crash near Jamestown earlier this week. The Highway Patrol said three people were injured after a ...

Indictment Accuses White Couple of Forcing Adopted Black Children to Work as 'Slaves,' Says Judge Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for PEOPLE 's free True Crime newsletter ...