Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

The South Haven Historical Association will hold a presentation Tuesday on the role Southwest Michigan played helping slaves ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

Tony Evers’ defense of the economic importance of undocumented workers with southern Democrats of the 1850s — Democrats whose descendants are now Republicans — who defended slavery as ...

They argued that citizenship would not only guarantee rights, but it would also set the legal framework for the end of slavery. Many African Americans in the decades before the Civil War were ...

When the Civil War started in the spring of 1861, Tubman put aside her fight against slavery to conduct combat as a soldier and spy for the United States Army. She offered her services to a ...