The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a museum ...

In America, it seems we believe that the only way to right the wrong of longstanding racial discrimination is to, well, just say we’re going to stop. We don’t have to actually do anything to repair ...

The monks of Mepkin Abbey have unveiled a garden space honoring enslaved buried in unmarked graves on their South Carolina ...

They may have been poor, but they were not slaves, and they were not black. They gained a sense of power simply by being white. In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton ...

South Carolina, September 9, 1739: A band of slaves march down the road, carrying banners that proclaim "Liberty!". They shout out the same word. Led by an Angolan named Jemmy, the men and women ...

In the decade after the Civil War, former slaves in the South searched for a way out. They were sickened and exhausted by the racist terrorism that had followed emancipation. Though freed from ...

In 1913, the Union of South Africa — a white minority government formed by the British and the Dutch just three years prior — passed the Natives Land Act. It defined a “native” as anyone who is a ...