In 1828, gold was found in the Appalacian Mountains of Georgia on land that belonged to the Cherokee Nation. As word of the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

At the National Museum of African American ... of slavery and Black freedom Kaila Philo Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving ...

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