Brutal physical punishment, psychological abuse and endless hours of hard labor without compensation drove many slaves to ...

A hidden world of bondage, terror, and survival that exposes how slavery outlived emancipation in the Jim Crow South. Mae Louise Walls Miller entered the world in 1943 unaware that she had inherited a ...

"For a long time now, a large number of [escaped slaves] have established themselves on lofty Maroon Hill in the mountains toward the west end of the island [of St. Croix]. … They are there protected ...

As we inch toward Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, it is important to remember that long before African Americans were granted their freedom in law, ...

During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved men, women and children also enjoyed the holidays. Slave owners usually gave them bigger portions of food, gifted them alcohol and provided extra ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — On the night of April 15, 1848, 77 enslaved men, women, and children slipped onto a schooner called The Pearl at the foot of 7th Street in Southwest D.C. and sailed toward freedom ...

Jordan Anderson was a former slave who worked on a plantation in Big Spring, Tennessee. He wrote an infamous letter to his former master who had requested he return to the farm to work. Wikimedia ...

1. Enslavement, acculturation, and African survivals -- 2. The Americanization of the slave and the Africanization of the South -- 3. Culture -- 4. The slave family -- 5. Rebels and runaways -- 6.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The red square on this 1767 map of St. Croix marks where Danes believed the Maroon settlement was. Paul Kuffner/Royal Danish ...