The Root

How Do I Decode Slave Records?

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 ...
The Root

How Do I Find Slaves Living on a Plantation During the Revolutionary War?

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 ...
World Socialist Web Site

Contemporary lessons from the slave power’s plot to overturn the 1860 election

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 ...
WTVM

Black History Month: How slavery connects to the history of Columbus

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Unsung unheralded narratives of American slavery & abolition The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; foreword by series editor Kevin Young ; edited with an ...

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 ...
The Washington Post

Census Taker's 1860 List Has Slaves' Names

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 ...
Washington Monthly

Slavery Was Bad and Must Be Remembered

President Donald Trump recently declared that “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was and how unaccomplished the downtrodden ...
The Heritage Foundation

The Constitution and Slavery

“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, ...
The Baltimore Sun

Carroll Yesteryears: Tracking the sordid path of an 1800s slave owner in Carroll

There is no telling what you will find searching through old Carroll County records. Recently the name Bernard M. Campbell popped up in books dating to the 1850s and early 1860s. Following Campbell’s ...