The year is 1833, and Edmund Keane tops the theatrical A-list. Critics have even labeled him the "greatest actor of his ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

"American Economic Growth of Standards of Living Before the Civil War," Pages 26-37. Robert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis (Eds.), 1992. NPR. "Without Slavery, Would the U.S. Be the Leading ...

(NEXSTAR) – Plenty of America’s most persistent ... who was born into slavery and later worked as a cook in Alabama and California before becoming an entrepreneur, a cookbook author and ...

Slave catchers had come knocking ... There, the man born enslaved served as an American ambassador to Liberia — a role he would hold for just a few months before his death.

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

Twelve years before that ... way for Illinois’ Black residents to enjoy the American promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Slavery existed in what would become Illinois for ...