CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Within the walls of The Old Slave Mart, there are newspapers dated back to the 19th century. They showcase front page ads of enslaved people without a voice. "Slavery and ...
If you’ve taken a trip to America’s Oldest City, you’ve most likely seen the Old Slave Market at the east end of the plaza. However, the realities of what happened there nearly two centuries ago -- ...
Nearly a decade ago, Boston’s Old North Church opened a Colonial-themed chocolate shop named for Captain Newark Jackson, a prominent early member of the historic church and a pillar of Boston’s ...
The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park will expose visitors to 170-year-old slave dwellings from cotton plantations, holding pens, and more. A groundbreaking new site, the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park ...
Susan Ross was a 3-year-old slave living in Texas when her family learned they were free. Even as a child, she remembered how excited her older brother was when he received the news. “When my oldest ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Would you want to live on a street named Old Slave Road? Sally Branson lives there and is fine with it. Karen Fox does and is not ...
The main reason people come to visit the Old North Church in Boston’s historic North End is to see the famous steeple where two lanterns signaled to Americans Paul Revere’s famous cries that “the ...
A Virginia judge has ruled that embryos can legally be classified as property or “chattel” — a decision with echoes of slavery in the U.S. Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Richard Gardiner partially ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – In honor of Black History Month, the Old Slave Mart Museum will be open 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays plus their regular hours throughout the month of February. Due to the pandemic, ...
I recently read an old history book (courtesy of my favorite Mondragón Books): Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860, by William J. Cooper, Jr. (1983). Cooper’s amply supported thesis is that ...
Biden had a great-great-great grandfather named Thomas H. Randle who was listed in the U.S. Census as living in Baltimore County's 1st district in 1850. This is the same name and district listed on an ...
(CNN) -- The main reason people come to visit the Old North Church in Boston's historic North End is to see the famous steeple where two lanterns signaled to Americans Paul Revere's famous cries that ...