For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story is incomplete. What is far less known is that the majority of enslaved ...

relative to the mode of "dealing with the colored population of the Southern Slates," and to their employment in the army of the United States. It will be remembered that at the period referred to ...

But the masters and slaves never approached equality. The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of ...

It has not yet attained, or fallen to, the status of a superstition: among the southern Slavs it is still an integral element in the everyday system of thought. For this, partially, the absence of ...

Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude ... However, after Reconstruction, many Southern black men were swept into peonage though different methods, and the system was not completely ...

Thomas Nast's ... [+] celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of the future of free blacks in the United States.

If the names Henry Hastings Sibley, Henry Rice and Alexander Ramsey ring a bell, it’s because they were important men in Minnesota’s history. Their contributions are many. Sibley was ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.