One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...
Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...
The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy. The USS ...
The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.
The following seems to be the text of the amended circular issued by the English Admiralty on the fugitive slave question: View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...
At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, “In Slavery’s Wake” tells the international ... the captives ...
The American Union owes its territorial aggrandizement to Slavery, and its commercial strongth ... and canvas for ships; and when it has served its purpose in these several forms, the same ...
Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story ...