During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

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 ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

When the Civil War started in the spring of 1861, Tubman put aside her fight against slavery to conduct combat as a soldier and spy for the United States Army. She offered her services to a ...

The South Haven Historical Association will hold a presentation Tuesday on the role Southwest Michigan played helping slaves ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...