At Mother Bethel, Villanova professor previews ‘Last Seen,’ her book about how Black families searched for relatives sold during slavery
One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...
National Geographic explorer shows how Black history heals in new book
National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...
Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery
A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...
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‘Trace/s’ exhibit connects Brooklyn’s 150-year history of slavery to living relatives
"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...
Hooked On Books: Lost But Never Forgotten-Families Torn Apart By Slavery Persisted In A Struggle To Reunite
It is one of thousands of such heart-rending pleas that appeared in papers across the country, starting even before slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and continuing as late as the ...
'Pain in these books' | History of enslaved people throughout Central Georgia available on online database
For the first time during Black History Month, thousands of documents connected to slavery in Bibb County are available to ...
Trump’s urgent push to rewrite American history
The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.
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The story of the Black ‘Brooklynites’ and their fight for freedom in NYC
Their history is Brooklyn’s history, spanning from the borough’s era as a slaveholding capital in New York and through the ...
How Henry Box Brown escaped slavery in a box and became a subversive magician
Henry Brown escapes slavery by mailing himself in a small wooden box to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In ...
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Revisionist History and Sherman’s War Crimes
Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...
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Book details global slave trade across Atlantic Ocean
NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost. Over the last ...
One family’s stories prove to be a window on Black struggle and persistence in American history
At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...