The International African American Museum will soon open in Charleston, South Carolina, at one of the country’s most historically significant slave trading ports. Overlooking the sacred site of ...
WELCOME BACK. WE’VE JUST LEARNED THAT MORE THAN A DOZEN UNMARKED GRAVES AT AN UPSTATE CHURCH BELONG TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO WERE ONCE ENSLAVED. AND THE CREDIT FOR THAT HISTORIC FIND IS GOING TO A ...
Edda Fields-Black gives a keynote speech for Juneteenth at Carnegie Mellon University in 2024. (Photo courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University) Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice ...
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — With the creation of an index and a catalog of slave records at the Greenville County Library System, Rulinda Price helped make it easier for African Americans to trace their ...
Inside a small art studio not far from Atlanta, 67-year-old Basil Watson is shaping history. The Jamaican-born artist is creating a sculpture of Robert Smalls, the historic South Carolina lawmaker who ...
With the creation of an index and a catalog of slave records at the Greenville County Library System, Rulinda Price helped make it easier for African Americans to trace their families' history in ...
Earlier this year, as she and her spouse piled into their Hyundai Tucson and prepared to travel the American South seeking answers about the ancestors she knew had been enslaved, Michelle Johnson ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD)- A state lawmaker introduced a bill Tuesday in the South Carolina House that would ban public schools from teaching about slave owners. The bill, filed by Rep. Jermaine Johnson ...
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Harvard University ends long battle over slave photos, sending them to South Carolina museum
Harvard University has reached a settlement with a woman to end a long legal battle over slave photos. Tamara Lanier of Norwich, Connecticut claims she's a descendant of two of the slaves shown in the ...
Ashworth, John. Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, 1820-1850. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Berlin, Ira. Slaves without ...
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Statue Of Escaped Slave-Turned-Congressman First Honoring A Black Person At South Carolina State House
The likeness of Robert Smalls, the escaped slave turned South Carolina lawmaker, will be remembered as the first African-American person honored with a statue at the State House at the hands of a ...
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