This is the most probable date when Black explorer Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable begins building the settlement, which would eventually become the city of Chicago, Ill. The Haitian-born (c 1745) du ...

Plantation owner Henry Laurens was one of the ... We'll never be free until we end slavery!" John Laurens died in the Battle of Combahee River in Colleton County in 1782, almost a year after ...

According to multiple archived newspaper articles, the Tillman’s ancestors were slaves on a Virginia plantation who navigated ... The original layout is unchanged. All three men had indelible ...

Founded in 1811, this picturesque community was once a bustling center of commerce, culture, and antebellum society. Today, it stands as a testament to Mississippi’s rich history while offering ...

Francesca Zambello is the artistic and general director, emerita of the Glimmerglass Festival. She currently holds the ...

However, they prefer to be called stewards of the plantation and its history which played a crucial role in the 1811 Slave Revolt. The Revolt is considered the largest slave rebellion in American ...

While on an artists’ retreat at a former slave plantation, our columnist Eirinie Carson muses on history’s worst moments – and their echoes today. Last spring I spent two weeks on residence ...

An Emmy-winning black TV anchor was treated like a plantation slave by her racist bosses, a bombshell lawsuit alleges. Ojinika Obiekwe, 46, had been employed at New York based network PIX11 ...

Bailey said Robert Jemison Jr., an Alabama politician and plantation owner, "knew many men, Black or white, and knew none ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

This is all part of the slave-dwelling experience. "I call myself a cultural and systems historian," Ista Clarke said. "It's in my blood and in my bones." Through his work with McCleod Plantation ...