Small African American boys of the eighteenth and ... Martha Washington at the end of 1800 freed those slaves who had belonged to him, including Letty, her three children (baby Nila and young ...

And for African Americans, the Industrial Revolution ... and other organizations presented anti-slave trade memorials to Congress. In January 1800, free black people in Philadelphia petitioned ...

In Blandair Regional Park, there's a building that used to be the home of enslaved African Americans that was first built in the 1800s. The county wants to fix it up and learn more about it.

(WTAJ) — William Nesbit, an African American man who moved to Blair County in the mid-1800s was instrumental ... after being convinced that former slaves should go and live there.

1718 William & Mary purchases the Nottoway Quarter and 17 slaves. Income from the tobacco provides scholarships ... publishes Lincoln's Job Half-Done, advocating African American students at William & ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The Young Men's Christian Association, better known as the YMCA, has existed in the U.S. since the late 1800s. The first YMCA that allowed African Americans opened on 12th ...