The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

If Jefferson had had his way, according to his memoir, which he began writing in 1821 at age 77, slavery would have been phased out long before blood was shed to ... led to the expansion of slavery, ...

Seward agreed with the proposal, but cautioned Lincoln to wait until the Union had a major victory before ... slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War ...

The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...

Beginning in 1820s Charleston, South Carolina, he traces the paranoia against literacy that rippled through the halls of Southern power in the wake of slave uprisings led ... literature in the decades ...

Semmes, a devoted Confederate and true believer in slavery, is now, like many ... Semmes wrote up his adventures at sea before and during the Civil War. Semmes had served in the Second Seminole War.

"Stumbling stones" honoring the lives of people enslaved in pre-Civil War Arlington will soon be coming to more local ...

A year before President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation ... and that Freedmen’s Bureau really helped to usher post-Civil War slaves into freedom," said Dr. Mitchell. If General Howard's name ...

Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened ... which he began writing in 1821 at age 77, slavery would have been phased out long before blood was shed to end it. His plan, he claimed ...

Semmes, a devoted Confederate and true believer in slavery, is now ... Semmes wrote up his adventures at sea before and during the Civil War. Semmes had served in the Second Seminole War.