Two places, one place: how the site of a former plantation in Prince George’s County known as His Lordship’s Kindness speaks ...
In 2016, a University of Chicago scholar stumbled across an extraordinary piece of writing that had been lost for nearly two centuries—one of the few firsthand book-length accounts of slavery, and ...
Marlon James’s new HBO detective series, “Get Millie Black,” draws on Jamaica’s colonial history as well as his family’s ...
Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in ...
The historic journey, now known by the family as 'The Trek,' began in 1844 when enslaver Paul Cameron ordered 114 enslaved people to walk from Stagville to western Alabama.
The FBI and authorities in several states are investigating racist text messages sent to Black people nationwide this week saying they would be brought to plantations to work as enslaved people ...
In a time when the very notion of a Black woman commanding a stage was unheard of, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield defied ...
The story is well told in “American Uprising,” a book by Daniel Rasmussen ... past the third or fourth year of laboring as slaves. The plantation work was grueling and the hours were long.
telling recipients they were “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.” The NAACP condemned the messages, warning Trump’s election has emboldened hate groups. We will have more on ...
"An enslaved man leaves a plantation, serves during the Civil ... And that was one question I used to ask them: 'What do you know about slavery?' And they would look at me like, 'What kind of ...
[Panzer, p. 2] Other people further claim that the Church changed Her teaching on slavery, so the Church can change Her teachings on other issues too. A recent book, entitled The Popes and Slavery ...