In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.
The Church of England’s slavery reparations drive could turn parishioners away from collection plates, a poll has found.
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It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...
The South Carolina Statehouse grounds bears monuments that tell the story not just of South Carolina history, but the context ...
The sound of 117-year-old organ pipes flows along downtown Charleston streets each Sunday, marking the heartbeat of Mother ...
Edith Renfrow Smith, a supercentenarian born the granddaughter of slaves and who lived through the administrations of 19 U.S. presidents, died Friday.
Thousands lined the streets of Cape Town Monday for the colourful annual minstrels' parade, a cornerstone of South African ...