Actor Kevin Johnson will portray man who was captured by pirates, later became a janitor at Hartford's Trinity College for 50 ...

Even if they or their loved ones were never sold, slaves had to live with the constant threat that they could be. African American women had to endure the threat and the practice of sexual ...

1718 William & Mary purchases the Nottoway Quarter and 17 slaves. Income from the tobacco provides scholarships ... publishes Lincoln's Job Half-Done, advocating African American students at William & ...

(WTAJ) — William Nesbit, an African American man who moved to Blair County in the mid-1800s was instrumental ... after being ...

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 ...

When the Fisk Jubilee Singers first performed in the late 1800s, they sang ballads and ... the emotions and strong faith of the African American slave. The following songs were recorded for ...

"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves." She was talking about the White House. And as the first African American first lady speaking to the Democratic National Convention ...