A hotel was North Carolina’s first “safe haven” for enslaved people during the Civil War. But perils still awaited those who arrived. In the 1860s, African Americans escaped to one of the state’s ...
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.
With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...