Chandra and Brandon Carr remember taking their children to visit the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit last year. Upon seeing a replica of a slave ship packed with shackled, ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...

While Charleston's African-American heritage can be appreciated year-round, the month of February, known as Black History month, is an ideal time to check out Boone Hall Plantation and Garden's new ...

Prologue -- Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane ...

Jim and Dottie Griffin made only one stop on the Montpelier tour last week. It wasn't the interior of James Madison's former home -- they had visited that before. The elderly white couple from Alabama ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...