On Jan. 1, 1863, nearly two years into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ...

Historians have also started grappling with the ways American slavery was uniquely gender-egalitarian – at least for white women. While Northern women were trapped in coverture, Southern states were ...

A Christ School student made a discovery in 2023 that led him to writing a book titled "My Dear Christ School Boys." ...

The historical marker for the St. Louis Hotel, the most famous slave auction site in New Orleans, is placed at the back of the luxurious Omni Royal Orleans hotel, next to a loading dock. Hundreds, if ...

Discovered during a highway interchange project, the site offers some insight into the lives of formerly enslaved people in ...

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War ...

Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South, where scores of enslaved Africans labored.

who facilitated the overland escape of freedom-seekers from the slave states to havens in the North and Canada in the decades before the Civil War. The Underground Railroad was more than a ...

These grand homes were built as the pre-Civil War cotton industry and slavery made many plantation owners extremely wealthy. By 1840, the Natchez region was producing most of the world’s cotton ...

“Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now,” the “30 Rock ... and age and what life was like back then, and cotton and slavery,” Baldwin, 66, said.

“Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now,” Baldwin ... age and what life was like back then and cotton and slavery and Lincoln and Robert E. Lee and so forth.” ...

was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...