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 ...

Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...

Historians, of course, have long made good use of various records, from plantation inventories and escaped slave advertisements to personal narratives collected by obscure abolition societies.

The most famous example, Aunt Jemima, stayed as a symbol for the mammy slave caricature on the plantation who served food for the family until 2020, according to the Jim Crow Museum. This ...

In an event held near the presidential palace in Quito, various members of Ecuador’s Cabinet recognized that more than 300 workers of a Japanese-owned abaca plantation were forced to live in ...

Ecuador's government apologized Saturday to some 300 people who worked as farmers for a Japanese textile firm in conditions which a court likened to modern-day slavery.

As the plants arrived along the Mississippi River beginning primarily in the 1960s, many took and retain today the names of the slave plantations on which they were built. Many “Free Towns” in the ...

On Sunday, February 21, 1932, Rev. Dr. Wendell Holmes McRidley — 91 years old, a former slave-turned-educator and man of faith — was preparing his evening message inside the safe walls of the Cadiz ...

Agassiz came across Renty and Delia while touring plantations in search of racially “pure” slaves born in Africa, according to Lanier's suit.

The Erie Canal Museum will host an event on Saturday, June 7 remembering the Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, and his 1825 visit through Upstate New York.

On Wednesday, that dispute came to a close, when the institution that held the 175-year-old photographs — Harvard University — agreed to a settlement that would end its ownership of the images.