Watch 'Abbott Elementary' star Sheryl Lee Ralph discover her ancestor was a free Black man in the mid 1800s on an exclusive ...

Of the approximately 210,000 counted in Georgia during the 1860 census, an estimated 35,000 ... ExploreHe escaped slavery to fight for the Union — and then he was captured The Civil War ...

COLUMBIA — A senior lawmaker wants to revisit South Carolina's Heritage Act that protects Confederate and other military ...

California has been the United States's most populous state since the 1960s, and it had a population of 39.4 million in the Census ... nation's antebellum divide over slavery.

“I had to look for them in store records, census records, property maps ... Aunt Sukey, circa 1860, identified as the eldest enslaved woman owned by the family of Robert B.

He immigrated to America in 1860, where he married an emancipated slave. Ali's mother ... increasing in recent years and as of the last census – 2011 – the population was 118,000.

Pryor was a slave owner based in 1850 and 1860 census in the United States, and he was employed by the state’s politician Adam Lewis Bingaman to train racehorses. His major operation would ...

According to the 1860 U.S. census, Pierce reported, Georgetown County had 18,253 slaves, 201 freed Black people, and just 2,193 whites. In Horry County, according to the 1850 census, whites ...

Each state honors two notable people in their history by donating statues to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S ...

Before the emancipation of slaves, records of enslaved people were not officially accounted for. However, that changed with the 1870 U.S. Census. President of the East Texas Genealogical Society, ...