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 ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

It was an extraordinary feat given the perils of the 1850 Slave Fugitive Act, which enabled anyone to capture and ... and had been fighting for gender equality and the right to vote as a free Black ...

What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white abolitionists determined to end slavery ... as a Civil War spy are less well ...

Abraham Lincoln, celebrated on his 216th birthday, left a significant impact as the 16th President of the US. Not only known ...

Cashier was not the only woman to hide her identity to join one of the Civil War's belligerents. Historians estimate as few as 400 or as many as 1,000 women hid their gender to fight the war as men.

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 ...

Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues Kate Clifford Larson - Brandeis University Jan 23, 2025 ...

A woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, Syria, during the rule of the terror group ISIS was on Tuesday jailed by a Swedish court on charges of ...