As the decennial U.S. Federal Census for 1850 was enumerated in Franklin County, Kentucky, young William Wright, age 14, was listed as chattel in the property inventory of John Wilcox Russell.

They were coming for the governor. Armed white supremacist militias had repeatedly disrupted elections and rattled the government, and now they wanted to take the state’s chief executive into custody.

From 1670 until 1865, the majority of blacks living in Orangeburg County were enslaved. The life that they lived covered multifaceted conditions. Descriptions of their circumstances would vary from ...

Anna Deavere Smith’s forthright reading of Hannah Crafts’s powerful autobiographical novel makes the antebellum South palpably present. Included in the audio book is the testimony of a distinguished ...

This clearly would not do. So lawmakers passed an act that required ships leaving the St. Johns River to stop long enough at Mayport so they could be boarded, inspected — and then fumigated, to drive ...

Satisfying the demand for laboring people, 1500-1850 -- The British East India Company and the trade in stout coffree men, 1621-1804 -- Satisfying the constant demand of the French, 1670-1810 -- ...