While Charleston's African-American heritage can be appreciated year-round, the month of February, known as Black History month, is an ideal time to check out Boone Hall Plantation and Garden's new ...
What was it like to live in slavery? One way to answer this question is to dig into Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938. ExplorePineBluff.com took a look ...
Access these resources as a member - it's free! Colonial Williamsburg African American History Interpreter Harold Caldwell talked about slave life in colonial America. Describe the daily life of ...
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...
Slave insurance was one of America’s earliest forms of industrial risk management that provided an important source of revenue for companies On the morning of April 20, 1859, a terrible explosion ...
Researchers at Italy’s Archeological Park of Pompeii have discovered a room used by slaves with extraordinary well-preserved remains. The excavations shed light on a stratum of society and way of life ...
MILAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Archaeologists have uncovered a room at a villa just outside Pompeii containing beds and other objects that shed light on the living conditions of slaves in the ancient Roman ...