One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

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 ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

Discover how African Americans have contributed to the U.S. economy, despite historical inequalities. Explore the impact of ...

A federal judge is set to hear arguments over temporarily pausing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end ...