Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

These are folks that had hopes and dreams and lives and children," Lazenby explained. "And these folks, they really built ...

Israel How Browne, also known as Israel Howe Browne, lived at 71 Concord St. He was known to allow escaped slaves to sleep in ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous book under the title Why We Can’t Wait.  Besides addressing the crime of slavery ...

For more than 30 years, the SC African American Heritage Commission has taken a serious effort in preserving the rich African ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

The son of slaves, Ottaway Gurley would become a multi-millionaire and one of the richest African-Americans in the country.

Slavery was a business, a commerce, a financial enterprise expanding American capitalism. In fact, most economists agree that ...

The world set aside January 27 every year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember one of the worst human tragedies of all times. The holocaust was a systematic genocide against European ...