A slave recruit named King ... and began hammering swords out of scythes and molding bullets. By August of 1800, Gabriel's army was ready. Their plan, necessarily more elaborate now, included ...

For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from ...

According to historian, Johnnie Warner who frequently studies the history of Black Americans, slaves were prepped for auctioning inside of the Stockades at the Muscogee County Jail in the 1800′s.

For decades in the 19th century, thousands of escaped slaves sought freedom using the ... known businessman and shoe manufacturer in the 1800s. The downtown Walcott Block (also Middlesex Block ...

New Haven, Yale and Slavery," has been open at the New Haven Museum for about a year. The exhibit has been impactful for ...

Blind from birth and born into slavery, Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins became one of the most prominent performers in the 19th century.