Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

In France in the 1830s, a lawyer named André-Michel Guerry ... of the country’s most remarkable data visualizations: “slave maps.” When Southern states began to secede in 1860 and 1861 ...

Indeed, as Greg Grandin demonstrates in his excellent new book, America, América, US policy toward Latin America has shaped ...

Credit: Courtesy Library of Congress At the same time, a national debate was playing out over the future of chattel slavery in the ... a degree in medicine in 1830 and opened a medical practice ...

They were 10 miles apart, as you could see on that map. FISHBURNE ... Her name was Jane Gates she was a midwife and she was a slave. MOORE: And you hadn't heard about her before this?

Possibly the Edward Roger Pratt, awarded slave compensation for Greenland estate in St Kitts ... gives an account of the ancient sites he visited, along with annotated maps and some tart observations ...

They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships.

Georgia Brabec, a first-year masters student in art history and architecture and another student of Nelson’s, talked about ...

Explore Illinois’ Underground Railroad history at Beardstown’s Old Lincoln Courtroom exhibit, featuring stories, photos and ...

DAVID OLUSOGA:'These are Britain's forgotten slave owners.' DAVID OLUSOGA:'By the early 1830s, the slave owners were losing the battle to defend slavery. Inspired by their religious faith and ...

They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...

Under Virginia law before the Civil War, emancipated slaves had to move out of the state. Malinda Russell was born in Washington County, Tennessee, around 1830 and grew up in Greeneville ...