Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

However, the health of plantation slaves was far worse than that of whites ... well as the economic self-interest on the part of the owners) encouraged keeping mothers and children and sometimes ...

Enslaved fugitives referred to the Ohio River as the River Jordan. It was a metaphor for freedom like the Israelites’ flight from slavery in Egypt through the parted waters of the Red Sea. Except the ...

“All descendants of white plantation owners who benefited from the slave trade should be asked to pay reparations, including Cumberbatch's family,” David Denny, secretary-general of the ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

Plantation owners whose slaves ran away frequently placed runway slave advertisements in local newspapers. Such ads often included a person's physical description, likely location or destination ...

A Louisiana plantation has new owners: two sisters whose ancestors were ... Zoom in: Hundreds of people reenacted the slave rebellion in 2019. What's happening: Jo Banner tells Axios the nonprofit ...

On their arrival in the New World, enslaved Africans would be unloaded from the ships and sold to plantation owners. After surviving confinement in the slave fortresses of the West African coast ...

Reparations demand from Antigua prime minister Gaston Browne comes after a team from Harvard University visited the island ...