Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into ...

This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. To preserve their profits, captains and sailors tried to limit the deaths of slaves from disease, suicide, and recolts.

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the last day of a three-day festival (some believe longer) known as Carnival, characterized by plenty of celebration and indulgence. It precedes Lent, the Christian ...

The shellfish was considered food for the poor before Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, an emancipated Black man, started serving them to the city’s elite in the 1700s PROVIDENCE — Oysters were ...

THAT IDEAL BIRTHED A NEW COMMUNITY IN THE LATE 1700S. FORMER DELAWARE SLAVE RICHARD ALLEN AND OTHERS DEVELOPED THE FREE AFRICAN SOCIETY, A GROUP OF METHODISTS SETTING ITSELF APART FROM THE ...

Chicago Founder and Haitian Revolutionary Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Chicago Founder Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ...

The US city where jazz was born, has an interesting food culture, inspired by its multiplicity, and shaped by wars, ...

In greeting members of a full-house audience, David Thomas set the scene for the evening’s topic, the Underground Railroad in ...

but slavery also flourished in the North. According to a previous report, prior to the 1700s, “there were more enslaved Africans in New York City than in any other city except Charleston ...