While Charleston's African-American heritage can be appreciated year-round, the month of February, known as Black History month, is an ideal time to check out Boone Hall Plantation and Garden's new ...

What was it like to live in slavery? One way to answer this question is to dig into Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938. ExplorePineBluff.com took a look ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Colonial Williamsburg African American History Interpreter Harold Caldwell talked about slave life in colonial America. Describe the daily life of ...

Slave insurance was one of America’s earliest forms of industrial risk management that provided an important source of revenue for companies On the morning of April 20, 1859, a terrible explosion ...

From 1670 until 1865, the majority of blacks living in Orangeburg County were enslaved. The life that they lived covered multifaceted conditions. Descriptions of their circumstances would vary from ...

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...

Similar to the way people insure their cars, houses and lives, slave owners would sometimes insure their slaves. Fearful of not getting their money’s worth from their slaves, owners would sometimes ...

In her debut novel, “Wench,” author Dolen Perkins-Valdez explores a subject that is rarely spoke of: the life of a privileged slave of the pre-Civil War era, particularly the women who became the ...

FORT MONROE, Va. — Joseph Rogers started with his tie, unwinding the broad Balthus knot he’d wound that morning. Then, he slipped out of his shined leather shoes, his slim-fit gray vest and the ...

What was it like to live in slavery? One way to answer this question is to dig into Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938. ExplorePineBluff.com took a look ...