Those who were liberated, we learn, were given “freedom papers,” promised “good treatment,” but not accorded the rights of ...

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 ...

You know that feeling of going down a rabbit hole on the internet? One thought, one click, one page leading to dozens of others. That's kind of how it started for Jonathan Schroeder. JONATHAN ...

From 1670 until 1865, the majority of blacks living in Orangeburg County were enslaved. The life that they lived covered multifaceted conditions. Descriptions of their circumstances would vary from ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday. “Enslavement in Alachua County” was hosted at Historic Haile Homestead, where ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...

The United States of America into which Willie Wright was born in 1837 was on a quick-time march toward a hardly inconceivable and ultimately unavoidable liminal conflict resulting in the Civil War.