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from the origins of many modern police departments in slave patrols, to the historical overlap between lynch mobs and legal executions. open image in gallery The Louisiana ACLU argues the program ...

(KTAL/KMSS) — A boy born into slavery in South Carolina was separated from his family at age five and later reunited with his father in Northwest Louisiana ... hands on a book she would teach ...

Slavery was an important factor in the territorial growth of the United States during the era of “Manifest Destiny”; Jefferson purchased Louisiana from France in 1803 partly to prevent anti-slavery ...

Each month, a dozen Louisiana residents get $1,000 in guaranteed ... according to survey data from the ACLU. Slavery and racism casts a long shadow over the history of criminal justice in the ...

Each month, a dozen Louisiana residents get $1,000 in guaranteed income, thanks in part to a $1m donation by Deacon Leroy “Buck” Close and Gracie Close of South Carolina, descendants of a family that ...