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The highway crossed over the Mississippi River and sliced through flat farmland just west of New Orleans. Smokestacks billowed plumes in the distance. One road sign announced a chemical plant. Another ...

The descendants of two Africans who were enslaved at a North Carolina plantation will spend the night in a reconstructed slave cabin near the same sites where they once lived. Mina Wilson, 57, of El ...

A new museum offers a rebuke — and an antidote — to our sanitized history of slavery Jared Keller At first glance, the “Wall of Honor” at Louisiana’s Whitney Plantation slavery museum — a series of ...

WEST COLUMBIA, Texas — The history of Juneteenth starts in Galveston. However, slavery was a huge part of all southeast Texas long before Emancipation. According to Mark Osborne, lead educator at ...

Slaves at Rosedown Plantation, the state’s most visited historical site, were “happy” and had “a natural musical instinct,” claimed the wording of an official exhibit sign at the state-owned and ...

When the Civil War ended, the Lowcountry's former slaves walked off the plantations, leaving their old world — and most often, their owners' names — behind. It reset African-American genealogy with ...

The plantation features a slave cabin that was built in 1840, it says. Republicans have defended the new law, dubbed Election Integrity Act of 2021, saying it’s required to boost confidence in voting ...

Months after a historic election in Georgia, the state passed legislation giving lawmakers more control over elections and imposing new voting restrictions. The legislation was signed by Georgia Gov.

Barry Jenkins' highly anticipated new series The Underground Railroad premieres on Amazon Prime Video today, telling the story of an enslaved woman's bid for freedom. South African actress Thuso Mbedu ...