Last known slave ship to arrive in U.S. discovered in Alabama 00:44. Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama's Gulf Coast ...

A video showing Alabama residents insisting that slaves were not treated badly has gone viral on social media.. The clip—which comes from "Chelsea Does Racism," an episode of Chelsea Handler's ...

Coats and the slaves - and some say a few Cherokees – set to work on building the house: a 14-room, two-story mansion built in the shape of a T, with porches facing out from both floors on ...

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

The descendants of Alabama slave owner Timothy Meaher –who hired Capt. William Foster to smuggle 110 captive Africans to Mobile on his ship, Clotilda– had for years refused to meet with the ...

On Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, current and former inmates announced a lawsuit challenging Alabama's prison labor program as a type of “modern day slavery." Dave Martin / AP Dec. 16, 2023, 6:00 AM EST ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

A year after they filed a federal lawsuit to end “a modern-day form of slavery,” the plaintiffs representing prisoners in Alabama and their advocates are […] ‘I Ain’t Come In Here to be ...

The Clotilda illegally transported 110 captive people from what is now the west African nation of Benin to Alabama.The captain, William Foster, transferred women, men and children off the Clotilda ...

Horace King, a former slave, was a renowned bridge builder and architect in the American South during the 19th century. King was known for his craftsmanship, particularly his intricate spiral ...