An old Cape Cod ferry nearly retired to a second life trading in the Caribbean. How much did the Steamship Authority make off ...
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 ...
With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...