A Richmond museum is preparing to open an exhibition in June that will explore the lives of free Black Virginians from 1619 ...

Much like J. Cole’s music reflects his North Carolina upbringing and the journey of making it as a successful rapper while ...

April is often associated with spring and renewal, but it also powerfully reminds us of the struggles and triumphs within ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Francis Daniel Pastorius was one of the early movers and shakers of Pennsylvania. A German convert to Quakerism, he arrived in Pennsylvania in 1683, a year after William Penn arrived and laid out the ...

Slavery & Abolition, 1:3, 263-275, DOI: 10.1080/01440398008574816 ODNB online, C.J. Wright, 'Fox [later Vassall], Henry Richard, third Baron Holland of Holland and third Baron Holland of Foxley ...

Civil Rights Act 1866 - All former slaves were to be citizens of the US and to have the same rights as white people.

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Jamaican Family Search is a virtual genealogy library for Jamaica, developed by Patricia Jackson, which is particularly strong in 19th century material. Click here to go to the site: Jamaican Family ...