According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

The Fox News headline quoting Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley was hilarious. Quite unintentionally.

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

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If you’re dreaming of a rustic farmhouse surrounded by acres of rolling hills, you’ll want to consider Bailey Farm at 455 Bailey Road in Stamford, New York. Asking $549,000, this Catskills ...

In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.

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Civil rights advocates in the 1860s and 1870s wrote the Fourteenth ... These amendments were a liberation for former slaves, but they were judged oppressive for established white families.