Meaning from that point on the formerly enslaved people of Texas were finally free leading to the idea of what many now call ...

“The ‘Free as One’ exhibit is proof of how and what really occurred,” says Justina Barrett from HSP’s Chief Learning and ...

Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

Mary Meachum, abolitionist dedicated her life to helping slaves escaping St. Louis to reach freedom, Illinois ...

One common condition required the enslaved person to live with their master until the master's death—meaning they only truly ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

For the first time during Black History Month, thousands of documents connected to slavery in Bibb County are available to ...

For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story is incomplete. What is far less known is that the majority of enslaved ...

The cotton boom created a demand for labor to work on cotton farms, which cotton growers met by purchasing slaves. According to census records, the number of slaves in America went from 894,452 in ...

What comes to mind when you think of the city of Savannah? Is it the beautifully laid out squares that dot the city? Or ...

In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.