A Juneteenth tour at Durham’s Historic Stagville explores how enslaved people experienced the transition to freedom.

Dressed head-to-toe in clothes from the 1800s, Marion Ransell Dobbins’ presence at the Sully Historic Site in Fairfax County, ...

They, along with William K. Bagby, Clark & Grubb, Fields & Gresham, Zachariah Rice, S.H. Griffin, W.H. Henderson, Inman, Cole & Co., and the Ponder brothers, all trafficked in lives across 20 slave ...

When Thomas White noticed the smoke, he couldn’t imagine what it might signal. The 15-year-old had been traveling undisturbed ...

A ‘Baptism of Slaves’ list is uncovered from 1825 and someone with the same ... It also states that they "belong" to the Battersea Plantation. And then, according to another document entitled ...

The French Foundation for the Memory of Slavery is convinced that France must ... on April 17, marking the 1825 royal ordinance that granted Haiti independence in exchange for an exorbitant ...

In March 1825 during a 13-month return visit to the ... he also supported the manumission of slaves. In the 50 years between the Revolution and his return, he participated in abolitionist ...

Bell, president of the AAHGS New York Chapter, discovered her own connection to the Lott plantation while assisting ... “I found out slavery was abolished in 1827, and the paper was from 1825. So it ...

The Halifax Banking Company, founded in 1825 and one of the banks that ... mind is a big sugar plantation or a big cotton plantation.” But slavery in Canada primarily took the form of domestic ...

Last week, the Danville and Pittsylvania County Regional Industrial Facility Authority passed a resolution to enter a sale contract with the owners of the former Oak Hill Plantation site in ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South ... obscurity from most histories of slavery in America.

Resistance and Abolition at Yale University In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton. But instead of ...