The marriage of ardent abolitionist Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler, heir to one of the largest slaveholding plantations in the nation, mirrored the unhappy union between southern slaveholders and ...

“Princeton students lived on a landscape of slavery,” Professor Martha Sandweiss said about antebellum Princeton in a meeting discussing the University’s racially charged history. This meeting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black fugitives fleeing slavery on the Underground Railroad, Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For generations, the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Virginia Center for Civil War Studies director Paul Quigley talked about importance of newspapers during the Antebellum era. The Virginia Center for ...

Toward the end of the new documentary Natchez, viewers have an extended scene with tour guide David Garner. Garner is an elderly white gay man, proud of his town. Natchez, Mississippi, is a place ...

Also available on the Internet to registered users. "Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade.

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday. “Enslavement in Alachua County” was hosted at Historic Haile Homestead, where ...

THIS IS how John Davis became a slave: He was walking one evening from the train depot in Goodwater, Ala., when a white man appeared in the road. “Nigger,” he demanded, “have you got any money?” The ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...