Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...
With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...
The final twist to the story is that, thanks to an act of grace and courage by a modern lawyer, Jack McGee, the home site of ...
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...
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