One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts, took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...
A nonprofit, the Capital Region Land Conservancy, wants to give the land at 1401 and 1421 Brander St. as a gift to the city.
But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships. More often than not, their existence was reflected in numbers on ledgers and spreadsheets. Their birth names ...
The Star Wars Universe is filled with amazing space ships, but which of the Empire and Rebel Alliance's crafts are the most ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — February is Black History Month: a time to celebrate Black Americans’ past, present and future. The ...
NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost. Over the last ...