A letter from a former slave who lived on a Wilson County plantation in the mid-1800s offers a new look into how she adjusted ...

After Madam Efurunoye Tinubu made a fortune from selling slaves she made a u-turn to stop the selling of humans. Sadly, she lost two sons to malaria while in Badagry — a famed slave port in Nigeria ...

There is no telling what you will find searching through old Carroll County records. Recently the name Bernard M. Campbell popped up in books dating to the 1850s and early 1860s. Following Campbell’s ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...

At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a neighbor’s pastureland. The Uniontown newspaper carried reports on ...

As part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we feature our interview with pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...