Southern Cape May County was once a haven for fugitive slaves, freed slaves and free-born blacks who came here for the same reason as white settlers: They wanted a...
Read moreGenealogyBank.com Reports Addition of 170 Historical Newspapers
Naples, FL (PRWEB) January 15, 2009 — GenealogyBank.com, the leading provider of digitized historical and recent newspapers for family history research...
Read moreSlave History of Charleston
The old slave quarters of the Aiken family reveal many stories of slave life and culture in Charleston in the 19th century. Ironworking and the ability to cultivate...
Read moreThe Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise Photography Exhibition Opens at the Smithsonian Jan. 30
“The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise,” a collaboration between the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the...
Read morePBS Celebrates Black History Month With an Extensive Lineup of Special Programming
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — From history to performing arts to independent film, PBS offers viewers the opportunity to explore the rich and...
Read moreHistoric black towns spotlighted in Lawton
The realty sign touted Taft as an Oklahoma town to call home “amid healthy, happy and prosperous surroundings.” For some black families yearning to escape the...
Read moreNational Archives Celebrates Black History Month in February
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Archives will celebrate Black History Month in February with a special showing of the Emancipation...
Read morePut to work, inmates clear historic cemetery
The Mount Auburn Cemetery – thought to be the city’s oldest cemetery open to black residents – was until recently overrun with honeysuckle vines...
Read moreLove Cemetery
Love Cemetery is the story of small community in the south decides to put together a bi-racial interfaith group to reclaim a bit of African American history.
Read moreFamily matriarch bought husband
She saw him. She bought him. Then she married him. The backdrop for this couple’s courtship was the early 19th century. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin was new...
Read moreWith unearthing of infamous jail, Richmond confronts its slave past
The place called Lumpkin’s Slave Jail was indeed a jail, but it was much more than that. It was a holding pen for human chattel. In Richmond’s Shockoe...
Read moreWeb database catalogs slaves’ trans-Atlantic treks
Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their...
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