On July 8, 1860, 110 kidnapped West Africans were offloaded from the ‘Clotilda’ in Alabama’s Mobile River. ‘Clotilda’ sailed in 52 years after the international trade in human beings was outlawed in ...

Olaudah Equiano's harrowing first-person account of being captured in Africa, transported across the Atlantic in horrific conditions aboard a slave ship, and sold into slavery in colonial America.

The Great Resistance, an expansive new book by author and historian Carrie Gibson, brings together often unheard narratives to tell the bigger picture of a difficult time ...

The first-day-of-issue event for the Phillis Wheatley Black Heritage stamp will take place on January 29 in Boston.

A man who was born into slavery in Lexington went on to become the president of Liberia.

The South Carolina Statehouse grounds bears monuments that tell the story not just of South Carolina history, but the context ...

The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the ...

Spanning centuries and peeling back layers of denial, “Seeing Violet” is a gripping new drama about memory, reckoning, and ...

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Mary Ann Macham’s story is an example of a larger phenomenon of Black American refuge in Britain in the 19th century.

The first work of theater devoted to the life of Henry Christophe was staged in 1821, only a year or so after Christophe took ...