Enslaved griots were the originators of the tales of Bre’r Rabbit, sharing adapted West African fables after long days working. "This is Black history," says one historian.

Copy of reward ad for runaway slave from Washington County ... was the Harmar residence of David Putnam, Jr. Other stations in Washington County were kept by Ephraim Cutler at Constitution ...

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.

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

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

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...

He previously worked as an equity analyst for Putnam’s central research team, where his coverage included communication services and tech names. Comanager Greg McCullough joined the strategy in ...

It’s called the “Know Their Names” project. “So, this is the Free Negro Register of Fauquier County. Every three years people of color were supposed to register," said White as she showed ...

Colonial-era notary books document transactions involving the sale and purchase of enslaved people, letters of release, and wills—not only of slave owners but also of freed black men and women.

The group freed Or Levy, 34, who was taken from the Nova music festival 16 months ago, and Ohad Ben Ami, 56, and Eli Sharabi, 52, who were kidnapped from their homes in Kibbutz Be’eri near the ...

A Georgia judge ruled last week that a short line railroad company can use eminent domain to seize land to build a spur line ...

The old stone schoolhouse is gone — disassembled in the 1950s with its materials carted off to Vermont. But what happened at Dean’s Corner Schoolhouse lives on, thanks to a William G. Pomeroy ...