The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

Slavery was legal in early Erie — and in ... to school through the deep snow on his back," according to a late 19th-century newspaper account. Emma Howell, after she was freed, married James ...

What was special about America was not that it had slavery ... all of Western civilization eventually turned against slavery in the 19th century. This meant the end of slavery in European empires ...

A: Slavery was intimately related to the major trends [and] developments that we associate with American history in the first half of the 19th century. For example, territorial expansion ...

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

Imagine flying, impossibly, over the Earth in the 17th century—during the time described in American history ... colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th century, almost four ...

Researchers have uncovered engineering feats hidden below water in North Carolina that shed light on the history of agriculture and slavery in ... fields from the 19th century," Wilde-Ramsing ...

"Trace/s: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn" at the Center for Brooklyn History grapples with the ...

At the National Museum of African American ... of slavery and Black freedom Kaila Philo Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving ...

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...