One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

In addition to their physical suffering, the hostages were subjected to forced labor. Some were made to cook meals and clean toilets for their captors. They were forbidden from crying or holding ...

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 federal lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, claims sanctuary policies in Illinois that keep local authorities from cooperating with the deportation effort are “exacerbating” ...

She ran a cooking school in Atlanta for 10 years ... Keep a white man happy, be you slave or woman, and your lot in life will be better — you may even be able to get some of what you want.” ...

Fourth St. in Taylor has about 19,000 people buried across 100 acres, said Cook. The city opened it in ... was born in 1857 as a slave on a plantation in the Manor area. After he was freed ...

All slave-related productivity accounted for as ... There were also thousands who worked in skilled trades such as cooking, carpentry, shipbuilding, blacksmithing, and masonry.

The children also weren’t allowed to celebrate holidays or birthdays, according to court documents, and would be put on strict diets, be made to cook for Brian and Sonja Stafford, and perform ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...