After the cutters went on strike in 1887, the state militia and white vigilantes retaliated by killing about 60 suspected ...

One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history ... land and lives of the Black descendant community located in Louisiana's River Parishes. The Banners said that the mission ...

Mother Henriette Delille founded the Sisters of the Holy Family, a U.S. congregation of black sisters that cared for the poor ...

As Americans celebrate Black History Month, Louisiana’s public school system and students can also celebrate having maybe the ...

Here is a part of their story of triumph in the face of adversity in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Newton “Newt” Smith was born into slavery on the McCain ...

the migration of slaves to the lower South increased the slave population in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas from 530,404 to 943,881. Even with this enormous ...