Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings.

Pages 147-149. At the time of the episcopal visit the slaves were under the supervision of two white overseers, ‘one of them a German’, who lived near the castle in ‘a more modern formal ...

saying the school came to be when Baptist missionaries from the South began moving to Texas in the 1830s. Texas was still a Mexican state that outlawed slavery, but the Baptists brought slaves and ...

They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...

Bennett’s great-great-great grandfather. Known as “Flem,” he was born into slavery on another plantation in 1830. He later ...

For some background, Duncan’s ancestors were forcibly removed from their lands in the Southeast through the federally enforced Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears in the late 1830s.

Bennett’s great-great-great grandfather. Known as “Flem,” he was born into slavery on another plantation in 1830. He later worked at Oak Hill, where he had to duck through doorways because ...

The American Antiquarian Society has received a gift of more than 18,000 items. collected by the late Stephen Davies Paine The gift is among the largest the Society has received in its 213- year ...

The history goes back all the way to the Civil War and to America’s foundational struggle over slavery, citizenship ... department began in the late 1830s with the rise of the Common School ...

Before the outbreak of the Civil War, the divide over slavery had been roiling the country ... history of former times tells us.” But in the 1830s, mob violence was prevalent.

John Holmes of Maine said in Congress in 1830. Jackson removed “more officials ... over the presidency to Van Buren and left for his slave plantation at the Hermitage in Tennessee.

Part of the subject is very much set by the “Age of Revolutions” period and concept, particularly the Saint-Domingue discussion, but there are other elements that were more long-term, notably the ...