Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white ...

Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...

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Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The Carnegie Mellon ...

We are taught that slavery was eliminated during the Civil War by the Emancipation Proclamation, but that was hardly the end of the story. History only occasionally talks about the lives of freed ...

Juneteenth remembers the moment in 1865 when slaves in Texas first learned of the Emancipation Proclamation and were belatedly given freedom two months after the Civil War’s end. Southern California ...