A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

The cotton boom created a demand for labor to work on cotton farms ... "The Business of Slavery: Who Benefits." New Georgia Encyclopedia. "Sherman's Field Order No. 15." The Urban Institute.

Nice glare from the sun girl in cotton field stock videos & royalty-free footage portrait of a seamstress is working with a lot of passion with sewing machine - dress - spinning spool of thread spool ...

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Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

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Gen. Lloyd W. “Fig” Newton triumphed over a system that did its best to keep him in a position of second-class citizenship ...

Donald Ray Lantz, left, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather , right, in court ...

A West Virginia couple accused of locking their adopted Black children in a barn, making them use buckets as toilets and forcing them to work “as slaves” has been found guilty of human trafficking and ...

Eight boys rejoice against blue skies and cotton clouds. Behind them; a field of yellow blossoms. In front of them; a single, ...