This domestic slave trade devastated black families. American-born slaves were torn from the plantations they had known all their lives, placed in shackles and force-marched hundreds of miles away ...

Pinterest, the Knot to Stop Glamorizing the Use of Former Slave Plantations as Wedding Venues ... Connecticut Bill Seeks to Bring African American and Latino Studies to High School Classrooms ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as ...

The Civil War ended slavery, and Reconstruction transformed America, but neither eradicated white supremacy. Historic ...

American Slavery, 1619-1877 ... Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut's Civil War.

However, they prefer to be called stewards of the plantation and its history which played a crucial role in the 1811 Slave Revolt. The Revolt is considered the largest slave rebellion in American ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and ...

While on an artists’ retreat at a former slave plantation, our columnist Eirinie Carson muses on history’s worst moments – ...

African American cemeteries have suffered neglect ... Known as “Flem,” he was born into slavery on another plantation in 1830. He later worked at Oak Hill, where he had to duck through doorways ...

The graves of hundreds of African American tenant farmers and their families are being moved in Virginia to make way for an ...

It explores Welsh links to slavery and the role of Sir Henry Morgan - the Welsh plantation owner and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. Azuka was inspired to write the play after a visit to ...