Black History Month: How slavery connects to the history of Columbus
According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark ...
Walking through history and Savannah’s stories of slavery
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 American Spectator1d
Pressley, Booker, and Colleagues: Silent on Dems Paying Reparations for Party’s Support of Slavery
The Fox News headline quoting Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley was hilarious. Quite unintentionally.
WUFT4d
Over 100 gather at historic plantation to confront the legacy of slavery in Alachua County
At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.
PM News on MSN4d
Borno man who fought in America’s Civil War in the 1860s
Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...
Wane5d
Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
The anti-immigrant ICE raids and the 1854 “Slave Catchers Riot” in Worcester, Massachusetts
In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...
The New York Times6d
The White Slave at Mr. Beecher's Church; THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE CASE.
1860. To the Editor of the New-York Times: In your issue of Monday there was a brief account of the purchase, by H.W. BEECHER's Church, of the freedom of a little slave girl. There were one or two ...
Mississippi Valley Publishing3d
Iowa record on school desegregation and slavery ahead of the rest of the country
In a few ways, Iowa has been more progressive than the rest of the country when it comes to providing equity to Black ...