The summer air in Rochester, New York, hung thick with heat and celebration. It was July 5, 1852, a day after cannons had ...

A cabin for enslaved people at The Hermitage, the home of former President Andrew Jackson, is seen Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. A cemetery has been discovered on the property which ...

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The TV series is an adaptation of Esi Edugyan's 19th century odyssey, which follows the life of George Washington Black, an enslaved boy who flees the plantation where he was born at 11 years old.

About 50 descendants of people who were enslaved at Catoctin Furnace will gather for a unique “descendants’ reunion” this weekend.

Anthony Ramos learns about his 15th great-grandfather's fate at the hand of a conquistador Anthony Ramos' 15th great-grandfather, Andrés de Llerina, an indigenous person from Tenerife, Spain ...

Dressed head-to-toe in clothes from the 1800s, Marion Ransell Dobbins’ presence at the Sully Historic Site in Fairfax County, ...

On Monday, he looked at the TV crews interviewing young volunteers. ... bringing sunlight to long-hidden stones that marked the graves of those who were enslaved.

Tamera Mowry-Housley hears some heavy news about her family in Finding Your Roots and learned that one of her ancestors had been enslaved int he Bahamas, and another was on the Mayflower.

KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — On a residential block in upstate New York, college students dig and sift backyard dirt as part of an archaeological project that could provide insights into the lives of ...

Cobb County is honoring the memory of the more than 3,000 people who were enslaved there in a unique way. Local and state leaders will gather with neighbors of a historic Smyrna community to ...

In the last three summers, the remains of up to 27 people have been located. Grave markers have been found, one for Caezar Smith, who was born enslaved and died a free man in 1839.