George Tucker publishes his quixotic "Dissertation on [the gradual abolition of] Slavery" Early 1800s William & Mary, facing harsh economic times ... publishes Lincoln's Job Half-Done, advocating ...

One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made record keeping nearly impossible. Because African-American slaves were ...

One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made record keeping nearly impossible. Because African-American slaves were ...

(WTAJ) — William Nesbit, an African American man who moved to Blair County in the mid-1800s was instrumental ... after being convinced that former slaves should go and live there.

In Blandair Regional Park, there's a building that used to be the home of enslaved African Americans that was first built in ...

This distinctive type of ceramic face vessel first appeared in the American South in the mid-1800s. Jugs such as these are attributed to a small number of black slaves working as potters in the ...