Those were far beyond Harriet’s control. She was Black at a time when people in Alabama who looked like her were slaves. Seven years before she was born, the Alabama Legislature had banned free ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train ... and Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, collectively evoking the history of slavery in America. "Artists have the ability to depict the humanity and ...

He died in 1915 and was buried at Tuskegee University in a brick tomb made my students with a view of the campus.

An east Alabama woman is suing a well-known attorney ... on the woman hiring Ghee for $2,500 and “agree to be his sex slave” ...

the migration of slaves to the lower South increased the slave population in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas from 530,404 to 943,881. Even with this enormous ...

but many slave owners in the South like Meaher continued it for years. After the Civil War, Africans brought on Meaher's covert trip would go on to found Africatown, Alabama, where many of their ...