Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The writing was already on the wall for the end of slavery, but a few last desperate words made it into print on April 22, 1865.

"Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely ...

In 1857, an 18-year-old female slave, Lear Green, who had been repeatedly raped and forced into prostitution by her white owner, one James Noble, was surreptitiously placed in a wooden seaman’s chest ...

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman dedicated her life to helping rescue African-American slaves from the South and escape to the North in the late 1800s. Take a look back at her incredible life. While ...

FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH, AND A LOCAL HISTORIAISN HIGHLIGHTING MANCHESTER’S ROLE IN THE UERNDGROUND RAILROAD. SEAN: STAN GARRITY HAS BEEN RESEARCHING HISTORICAL QUEEN CITY LOCATIONS THAT ...

Editor's note: In honor of Black History Month, this story was written to convey both the terror of enslaved individuals as they sought their freedom and as they were ...