The Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans claims that Stone Mountain Park's plan to design exhibit on ties to ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group has filed a lawsuit against a state park over an exhibit on slavery, segregation, ...

The Barbados Tropical Garden transports you to the Caribbean without the hassle of passports or airport security lines. Palm fronds create a gentle symphony overhead as tropical flowers compete for ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Three gunboats slipped up the dark Combahee River on June 2, 1863. Commanding one of them was Harriet Tubman. During that ...

During the 1850s, the southern enslavers were definitely in the driver's seat as far as the national government was concerned. The decade started off with the ...

Enslaved persons, sailors, and other groups at the bottom of the colonial hierarchy of power rose up against their oppressors. These rebellions struck fear in the heart of rulers everywhere, and ...

Take away its legal sanction and subsidy, and the institution’s entire economic edifice crumbles.

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

Lifestyle The lesser-known story of 100K courageous runaway slaves who fled the South via the ‘Blue Highway’ By Caroline Howe Published May 17, 2025, 12:07 p.m. ET ...

Before Whitney’s innovation, about 700,000 slaves lived in the South. By 1850 that population had soared to more than 3 million, according to the National History Education Clearinghouse.