While one elected leader has sought assurances that Black, Latino and Native American perspectives are included in a new $235 million Alamo visitor center and museum, traditionalists who support the ...

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

Bader-King is the executive director of the Wornall/Majors House Museums, a three-person nonprofit that manages the two Civil ...

In a world where innovation often shapes the future, few have left as profound a mark as Dr. Patricia Era Bath. Born on November 4, 1942, Dr. Bath transcended boundaries, redefining what it means to ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

Nantes, a city that prospered from maritime trade but for more than a century it was also France’s largest slave-trading port. Today the city is acknowledging this with one of Europe’s most ...

Chautauqua County was home to more than 1,100 anti-slavery activists between 1835 and 1860, the period leading up to the ...

The process of colonizing North America transpired quickly between 1492 and 1620 with an increasing number of settlers arriving in bigger groups after 1600. As more Europeans arrived in the region, ...

The Springfield (Ill.) Journal says: "The fugitive slave, EDGAR CANTON, who left this city for St. Louis on Monday morning, accompanied by Deputy United States Marshal CRAFTON, and three or four ...

Born 29/01/1795 and baptised 24/02/1795 in Clarendon, Jamaica, daughter of Daniel Tabois and Mary Oakes (nee Cole, the parents married in 1792 in Clarendon when Daniel's occupation was given as ...

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