The Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) is unveiling a new exhibit called “Un/Bound: Free Virginians, 1619-1865,” which tells the stories of free Black Virginians from the ...

Illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson worked with author David F. Walker on graphic novel “Big Jim and the White Boy.” ...

Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

Some Carolina Country Music Fest fans enjoy Myrtle Beach's biggest music festival for free – from the boardwalk, bars stools, ...

Renovations on the former Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Burlington, Ohio, are expected to be complete by the end of ...

Clarke’s daughter, Kitty, was the wife of Willis Madden (1799-1879). The Maddens were one of Virginia’s most prosperous free antebellum Black families, according to the University of Virginia Library, ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...

That all changed with the end of the Reconstruction Era, when Americain- style segregation was codified into law. Creoles of ...

This appears to be the only antebellum case which adjudicated the ... that he could scarcely "understand" Wirt's argument that free Black allegiance to Virginia must follow a consensual oath ...

“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 ...