On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Around 100 women were alegedly kept on a human egg farm in Georgia where they were force-fed supplements and kept as slaves ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

The great-great-grandson of a former Jasper County slave, is coming to the Ice House Museum Friday, February 23 at 7 p.m. Fred McCray will be giving a free lecture about his family and his people ...

Wilsontown, in Odenton, was where Quakers and freed slaves worked and lived together. However, its historical and cultural significance wasn't publicly recognized until recently. Community leaders ...

But after 1865, freed slaves did not find themselves in a friendly world. Many white Americans reacted with indignant fury to the idea of Black people being their equals. In a harsh and ...

It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby protecting the legal status of the newly freed slaves. Eventually, the amendment would be interpreted to apply most provisions ...