Horace King, a former slave, was a renowned bridge builder and architect in the American South during the 19th century. King ...
The National Museum of African American History and Culture illuminates the brutalities of slavery and Jim Crow while also ...
A judge finds that Virginia law does not consider frozen embryos to be property that can be divided up in a partition lawsuit ...
An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced ...
leading to a huge demand for shellfish throughout the 19th century. Still, it was Bernoon’s initiative that helped Downing’s business to be successful; it was the former slave’s vision that ...
The continuation of slavery within Africa in the 19th century after abolition is also poorly documented. ARAB SLAVE TRADE Historical documents containing statistics are not always very reliable.
Voices of Resistance exposes how 19th century British postal services profited from and enabled transatlantic trafficking of ...