Nearly a decade ago, Boston’s Old North Church opened a Colonial-themed chocolate shop named for Captain Newark Jackson, a prominent early member of the historic church and a pillar of Boston’s ...
WALLACE, La. (AP) — Ceramic sculptures of hollow-eyed slave children haunt the Whitney Plantation, west of New Orleans, where owner John Cummings has infused the traditional antebellum plantation tour ...
The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park will expose visitors to 170-year-old slave dwellings from cotton plantations, holding pens, and more. A groundbreaking new site, the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park ...
I recently read an old history book (courtesy of my favorite Mondragón Books): Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860, by William J. Cooper, Jr. (1983). Cooper’s amply supported thesis is that ...
A Virginia judge has ruled that embryos can legally be classified as property or “chattel” — a decision with echoes of slavery in the U.S. Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Richard Gardiner partially ...
The Old Slave Mart Museum on Chalmers Street occupies a building that once was part of a complex of structures known as Ryan’s Mart. It included a barracoon (slave jail), dead house (morgue), kitchen ...
The street in west St. Louis County is situated at the site of two plantations where more than 100 enslaved people lived before the Civil War. With one of its previous opponents gone and the same ...
After years of debate, the controversial slave auction block in downtown Fredericksburg was removed in 2020. Now there are ...
Kwanzaa kicks off in Charleston, celebrating unity and cultural renewal through Jan. 1 Kwanzaa began Friday, marking the start of a weeklong cultural celebration centered on reflection, unity and ...
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