A story described three Black sisters named Clara, Ruth and Viola covertly collaborating with a white photographer to free ...

As more Confederate monuments were being removed in the South this month, an old claim seeking to downplay the extent of slave ownership began to recirculate online. Data archived from the 1860 census ...

For many African Americans the paper trail back to your ancestral origins hits a wall once you reach the slavery era. During the hunt for information about my great-great-grandmother, Jane Gates, who ...

Though the Civil War was over 150 years ago, the social fabric of the United States still suffers from the country’s former divisions. Cultural and political values are split between the so-called ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Descendants of the last African people abducted into slavery and brought to America’s shores gathered over the weekend on the banks of an Alabama river to pay tribute to their ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article re-examines the 1860 census for Savannah Georgia. It melds the free and slave census to gain insights into slave ownership, ...

We made a surprising discovery while addressing a question about how slaves got their last names. Were the surnames of enslaved people changed when they were sold, or were they allowed to keep the ...

A journey made by a slave in 1860 is still of great inspiration to me. After the passage of nearly 150 years, I still use the story of this journey in an effort to inspire my listeners or readers to ...

Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, takes place against a backdrop that readers will find familiar. The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson An American ...

It felt like a kick in the stomach. Exploring an ancestry website, I discovered an 1860 Slave Schedule showing that my great-great-grandfather, William Henry Robertson of Mason County, Kentucky, owned ...