Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...
One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...
Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites ... the plight of runaway slaves in Civil War America. By directing the camera toward the contraband camp adjacent to ...
It was an extraordinary feat given the perils of the 1850 Slave Fugitive ... to vote as a free Black woman for more than 50 years after her work during the Civil War. Surrounded by friends and ...
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended, two women sought help from high places to track down ...