In the United States, there is a federal census taken every 10 years, on the even years ending in zero. There have been such accounts taken ever since it was first established back in 1790. Census ...

Local historians are planning to erect historic markers to recognize the lives of two enslaved people who once lived in ...

Today marks World Flour Day. While this essential baking ingredient is easily accessible with a simple swipe of a card at the ...

To study the Lloyd family, which the 1790 Census showed enslaved 15 people (including Jupiter Hammon, the first published Black American poet), he said he uses records: letters, account books and ...

Soon after Emily’s birth, the family moved to Worplesdon where five siblings were born by 1825. Two more siblings, George and ...

The 1980 census reported that our city was 99.2% White. It was nearly impossible to experience meaningful interactions with minorities. Then in 1991, cross burnings and a Ku Klux Klan rally in Dubuque ...

Thomas Jefferson called slavery a “hideous blot” and “a moral depravity,” but held hundreds of Africans captive at Monticello. He condemned the trade in African bodies in the first draft of the ...

A decade later, the 1790 U.S. census lists 24 enslaved people in Waightstill’s household at Swan Ponds. Some who came later include Minty, Anna, Hamp, Silvia, Abilina, Hercules, Wilsey and Ben.