"The dominance of slavery in the American South extended way beyond enslavers and enslaved people," said Tera ... Newspaper ads for enslaved runaways made their lives harsher in 1800s. Advertisement.

The lesser-known story of 100K courageous runaway slaves who fled the South via the ‘Blue Highway’ By . Caroline Howe. Published May 17, 2025, 12:07 p.m. ET.

-- The local trade in slaves appears to be anything but flourishing, if we judge from some of the latest authentic reports. We find a healthy negro, thirty-six years of age, going off at Salisbury ...

Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, carrying with them orders that all enslaved people were now free. For decades, marking the occasion was an act of bravery and defiance for many Black Americans.

Slavery and the Great Migration are but two of 13 mass movements of ... Haitian immigration to the United States in the late 1700s and early 1800s; ... about 700,000 slaves lived in the South.

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… ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 slaves escaped from the South on a months-long slog through Illinois and on ...

In contrast to the South, northern slaves often worked within homes or small places of work, alongside their owner rather than on farms.They lived, for example, in tiny rooms within the ...

Newspaper ads about runaway slaves in 1800s deepened their ... With the end of slavery, the South’s oppression of freed Black people still wasn’t quite over — nor was the Advertiser’s ...

Arming Slaves at the South. Share full article. Feb. 12, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 12, 1865, Page 4 Buy Reprints.