Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

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

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

A Shreveport museum is honoring the history of the city’s first bank for freedmen by displaying a special exhibit during ...

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

Old Bayview Cemetary is one of the city's oldest burial places-- and it's not segregated. In it, lay the remains of a Black ...

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

Though traditional accolades escaped Tubman for most of her life, she did achieve an honor usually reserved for white officers on the Civil War battlefield. After she led a successful raid of a ...