BALTIMORE - A small Black community in Anne Arundel County goes back to the 1800s. Wilsontown, in Odenton, was where Quakers and freed slaves worked and lived together. However, its historical and ...

In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least 87 Black men were elected to and served in the Arkansas General Assembly. Reconstruction policies and amendments to the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery, ...

Explore the stories and contributions of Black horsemen in the 19th and 20th centuries. Explore the stories and contributions of Black jockeys, trainers, owners, grooms and exercise riders in the ...

Slavery hadn’t been over for long in Texas when freed slaves set out to give their children what they themselves never had: an education. Across the Lone Star State in the late 1800s and early 1900s, ...

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 ...