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.

(WAVE) - A piece of public art seeks to make sure Kentucky doesn ... River allowed the city to grow from the sales of African American slaves. “Kentucky’s sold 80,000 slaves down the Ohio ...

Like George Morland's painting entitled The Slave Trade, the scene is set on the African coast ... Few patrons were willing to purchase a piece of art for their homes that depicted such cruelty.

Quilting has been an important part of Black American history. It served as a creative outlet, a way to tell stories, and ...

The "many" he refers to are the Africans taken as free people and then forced into slavery in South America, the Caribbean and North America. Along the west coast of Africa, from the Cameroons in ...

At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, “In Slavery’s Wake” tells the international history of slavery and Black freedom Kaila Philo Charcoal portraits depict six of ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

As part of a year-long investigation into Congress’s relationship with slavery, The Washington Post ... with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American justice. But a House effort ...