The opening day of the symposium celebrating the landmark work, “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans,” by celebrated historian and Duke faculty emeritus John Hope Franklin, was ...

Susan Ross was a 3-year-old slave living in Texas when her family learned they were free. Even as a child, she remembered how excited her older brother was when he received the news. “When my oldest ...

Slavery existed across both ancient and modern worlds, but the rules, the violence, and the purpose behind it changed ...

“I was born a slave,” Benjamin Johnstone began his account of the trials and tribulations of his remarkable life. Shuttled from owner to owner for most of his life, Johnstone was finally able to gain ...

Mary Ann Macham’s story is an example of a larger phenomenon of Black American refuge in Britain in the 19th century.

Originally published in Charleston Currents. With rapid-fire questions, Georgia nurse Leonza Hudson wanted to know where the enslaved people at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens attended church and cook ...

The Equal Justice Initiative will soon open a third site in the Montgomery area memorializing victims of racial violence. Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, a 17-acre site located on the banks of the ...

PHILADELPHIA — When visitors walk through the new $9-million pavilion housing one of the nation’s most enduring icons of freedom, they will tread above the spot where the first president kept his ...

AAPG copy 39088019788785 signed by author, "To Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence, with admiration and affection." 1. Land of Their Ancestors. Ghana. Mali. Songhay. Other States -- 2. The African Way ...

We have the story of a divided nation - not divided as we know now, but divided between states that banned slavery and states that embraced it. In 1848, in the slave state of Georgia, a husband and ...

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