According to the Columbus State University archives, by 1860, 37% of the city’s population was enslaved. Several slaves are buried in The Porterdale Cemetery located on the corner of 10th Ave. and ...

The slavery era was a gloomy time in Surry County as it was elsewhere in the nation, but a “monumental” new publication is casting light on that topic locally.

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Asian stocks were mostly up Friday on the back of a near-record rally on U.S. stocks, as investors paid little attention to U ...

Florida has started removing fluoride from drinking water, following guidance from the state's surgeon general, Dr. Joseph ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

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“In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World,” at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Few images exist In 1808, the United States, along with a host of ...

Mario Tama / Getty Images Slavery reparations ... Group participated in slavery. Cotton commodities and plantation shares and bonds—sometimes underwritten with deeds to enslaved people—were traded on ...