A group with Arkansas connections says an unmarked slave cemetery has been discovered in Pulaski County on its newly purchased property. The cemetery has been found...
Read moreThe slaves who sued for freedom
I n New England, suits by enslaved African-Americans date back to Colonial times. The cases were frequently based on a slave’s claim of white or Native American...
Read moreUnderstanding History: African-American Burial Traditions
Cemeteries are a treasure trove of historic information. Names, dates, relationships, professions, property can all be gleaned by studying the gravestones and death...
Read moreForgotten graves at University of Virginia likely belonged to black slaves
A piece of black colonial history may have been unearthed after a hidden grave site was discovered adjacent to the University of Virginia campus. Sixty-seven unmarked...
Read moreUniversity of Kansas showcases historic black photography online
The Leon K. Hughes Photograph Collection is a chronicle of African American family and community life in Wichita, Kansas from the late 1940s through the 1970s...
Read moreHistoric slave cemetery artifacts returned to James City
When Ben A. Watford and Earl Mills recently went to Eastern Carolina University to get duplicates of some artifacts from a slave cemetery in James City, they got much...
Read morePassion drives effort to preserve history, search for roots
Candice McKnight all but moves mountains to help people find their roots. But it was on an imposing rock set down in a stranger’s yard in Missouri that she looked her...
Read moreResearchers to reveal lost African-American historical record
The experiences of African-Americans in the Las Vegas area during its segregationist past have generally been portrayed in depictions of iconic showroom entertainers...
Read more‘It gives me gooseflesh’: Remarkable find in South Side attic
It wasn’t much more than a ghost house by the time Rufus McDonald got the call. The front door of the abandoned home near 75th and Sangamon was unlocked and swinging...
Read moreMajor find shows cruel life – and death – of slaves
As Professor Mark Horton tells me as he opens the lids, these boxes represent almost the entire sum of the physical relics of the Middle Passage. These personal...
Read morePlains reclaim historical farming town
From old mining towns in the mountains that saw claims dry up to farming communities on the Eastern Plains that suffered from a lack of water, Ghost towns exist...
Read moreNot black enough: Some challenge Delaware Historical Society’s ability to interpret their history
Critics say the Delaware Historical Society cannot adequately tell the story of Delaware’s African-Americans. The recent announcement that the society received...
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