I hope I’m not giving you the wrong impression about free black life in the antebellum South, because life for them there was “no crystal stair,” to quote Langston Hughes. Laws ...

The Biden administration’s efforts to give much-needed aid to Black farmers through the American Rescue Plan have highlighted the tremendous challenges these producers face while working the ...

For his book, entitled “Slavery, Slaveholding and the Free Black Population of Antebellum Baltimore,” the 45-year-old author spent six years tediously reviewing federal census tracts ...

“This was also an opportunity to humanize the Black woman,” Antebellum star Janelle Monáe ... to what our ancestors lived through. “I am free because of my ancestors’ fight to be free ...

In the Antebellum period, blacks were forced to participate in dissections ... white American doctors argued that former slaves would not thrive in a free society because their minds could not ...

I am tired of thin characterization and milquetoast social messaging being the kind of representation Black folks receive. I am tired of films like Antebellum ... to break free and is ...

the self-sufficiency that antebellum Blacks were working so hard to achieve while society was working so hard to erase the evidence of those achievements,” Foreman said. “When we only emphasize ...

By the late antebellum period ... Given how commonly they engaged in commerce with free blacks and slaves, miscegenation was all but inevitable. Whether abandoned, widowed, or simply alone ...

“Here, I’m thinking of the fraught legal status of free Black Americans in the antebellum United States. ‘The possibility of being kidnapped and sold into slavery was shared by the entire ...

With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was the South’s largest antebellum mansion, or “big ...

“To have achieved this level of success as a free Black man in the antebellum South was nothing short of extraordinary,” Awake writes in the book. “Particularly in the decades preceding the ...

“This was also an opportunity to humanize the Black woman,” Antebellum star Janelle Monáe ... to what our ancestors lived through. “I am free because of my ancestors’ fight to be free ...