A slave recruit named King ... and began hammering swords out of scythes and molding bullets. By August of 1800, Gabriel's army was ready. Their plan, necessarily more elaborate now, included ...
For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from ...
According to historian, Johnnie Warner who frequently studies the history of Black Americans, slaves were prepped for auctioning inside of the Stockades at the Muscogee County Jail in the 1800′s.
In 1800, the city’s population of 59,000 included 2,800 slaves (Brooklyn, then not formally part of New York City, however, had a far larger percentage of enslaved residents). It’s important ...
At a presentation on Thursday, historian Karen Sieber will share her findings on Minnesota's connection to freeing enslaved Black Americans via the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s.
Blind from birth and born into slavery, Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins became one of the most prominent performers in the 19th century.