Slavery was legal in early Erie — and in ... to school through the deep snow on his back," according to a late 19th-century newspaper account. Emma Howell, after she was freed, married James ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

Israel How Browne, also known as Israel Howe Browne, lived at 71 Concord St. He was known to allow escaped slaves to sleep in ...

Slavery spread from the seaboard to some ... spurring the industrial revolution which transformed America in the 19th century. Progress has different meanings for different people.

What was special about America was not that it had slavery ... all of Western civilization eventually turned against slavery in the 19th century. This meant the end of slavery in European empires ...

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.

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

Researchers have uncovered engineering feats hidden below water in North Carolina that shed light on the history of agriculture and slavery in ... fields from the 19th century," Wilde-Ramsing ...

Imagine flying, impossibly, over the Earth in the 17th century—during the time described in American history ... colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th century, almost four ...

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...