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The sad story of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in American history
In 1808, the international slave trade was abolished in the United States. But slavers continued to operate covertly and, ...
On June 19, 1865, crowds of slaves gathered in Galveston, Texas to hear an announcement from Union Army General Gordon Granger. “The people of Texas,” said Granger, “are informed that in accordance ...
"A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At night, I lie awake thinking about someone I do not know. During the day, I comb through online archives and newspapers, trying ...
Prologue: A house divided -- Introduction: The slave power -- Section 1: The age of revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United ...
“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler See more of our coverage in your ...
A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...
Few events have shaped the United States as profoundly as the American Civil War. Fought from 1861 to 1865, the conflict ...
It was his weekends as a Civil War re-enactor that urged Joseph McGill to campaign for the conservation of slave cabins. Alan Hawes At a bygone plantation in coastal Georgia, Joseph McGill Jr. creaks ...
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