President Abraham Lincoln stood on a battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa., 150 years ago and declared "a new birth of freedom" for the nation. That same year, an African-American man named Lewis Henry ...

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 ...

A researcher has discovered the identity of the last-known survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Redoshi, later given the slave name Sally Smith, was kidnapped at the age of ...

THE United States was in the middle of a civil war 150 years ago and, while Abraham Lincoln had just issued the emancipation proclamation, it would still be another 18 months until freedom finally ...

In the nearly three dozen former slave quarters that Joseph McGill Jr. has slept in, he said he's never felt the presence of the oppressed inhabitants. Nor does he want to. "I am not hoping for that ...

FORT MONROE, Va. — Joseph Rogers started with his tie, unwinding the broad Balthus knot he’d wound that morning. Then, he slipped out of his shined leather shoes, his slim-fit gray vest and the ...

Will Smith's next movie follows a real-life slave fighting for his freedom Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has appeared in Women's ...

Similar to the way people insure their cars, houses and lives, slave owners would sometimes insure their slaves. Fearful of not getting their money’s worth from their slaves, owners would sometimes ...

"12 Years a Slave," based on the real-life memoirs of a free man of color who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, was labeled an instant Oscar contender from the moment it premiered Aug. 30 ...

Slave insurance was one of America’s earliest forms of industrial risk management that provided an important source of revenue for companies On the morning of April 20, 1859, a terrible explosion ...