For many African Americans the paper trail back to your ancestral origins hits a wall once you reach the slavery era. During the hunt for information about my great-great-grandmother, Jane Gates, who ...
I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who ...
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, takes place against a backdrop that readers will find familiar. The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson An American ...
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark history, from being chained, whipped, raped, and ...
“Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, ...
Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...
RALEIGH N.C., April 23 -- A renegade census taker charged with recording the population of a tiny northeastern North Carolina county in 1860 left behind a record of slave names that is the only such ...
Slave insurance was one of America’s earliest forms of industrial risk management that provided an important source of revenue for companies On the morning of April 20, 1859, a terrible explosion ...
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