Eugene Genovese on Slavery and the Master-slave Relationship, by Mark Smith

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Mad e (1974), Genovese examined the society of the slaves. This book won the national Bancroft Priz...

Ken Knowlton: Mosaics

Dignity Under Duress (from Louis Agassizi's photo of a slave) Seashells, Ken Knowlton, 1997

Harvard's Racist Louis Agassiz

Cambridge - Harvard Square: Harvard Museum of Natural History Harvard Museum of Natural History, at 26 Oxford Street, was created in 1998, c...

Edward L. Ayers: Defining the Twentieth Century

Edward Ayers, President of University of Richmond, discusses how to define an "era." He reviews African American history and women...

We Can Stop Wal-Mart at the Wilderness

We Can Stop Wal-Mart at the Wilderness

Jacob Lawrence,The Shoemaker, from The Migration Series, 1945

Jacob Lawrence,The Shoemaker, from The Migration Series, 1945

The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker

The branded hand of Captain Jonathan Walker The letters "S.S.," for slave stealer, were branded on the hand of Captain Jonathan W....

Thomas Jefferson's Runaway Slave

RUN away from the subscriber in Albermarle, a Mulatto slave called Sandy, about 35 years of age, his stature is rather low, inclining to cor...

An Encounter With A Missouri Slave In 1861

From the London Illustrated News , by G.H. Andrews, published on 16 February 1861 [editors note: the Civil War began in April of 1861]  -- ...

Savannah And The Slave Business

From Savannah Now , "Historian chronicles Savannah's business ties to slavery," by Chuck Mobley, on 27 February 2009 -- Seate...

The Freedman’s Mechanical Bank

The Freedman’s Bank by F.H. Griffith - HOBBIES Magazine - May, 1970 Other than having the finest most complete collection of the different m...

Coon Chicken Inn:

Coon Chicken Inn (Seattle) The Coon Chicken Inn was a fried-chicken restaurant chain located on the Old Bothell Highway on the outskirts of ...

Freedman's Savings & Trust Co.

Three million dollars ($53,942,565.24 in 2010 dollars) belonging to 61,000 African Americans. That's how much accumulated wealth vanishe...

Library of Congress Closes Exhibition on Slavery

As reported by the New York Times , "After Protests, Library of Congress Closes Exhibition on Slavery," by Karen De Witt, on 21 De...