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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Where they were laid to rest is knowledge ...

Markers outside the Ball-Sellers House in memory of people enslaved there (photo via Arlington County) “Stumbling stones” honoring the lives of people enslaved in pre-Civil War Arlington will soon be ...

The descendants of David Drake learned who he was 10 years ago. They see his jars as his artistic and spiritual inheritance — ...

In “Stony the Road,” the photographer Dawoud Bey offers a captive’s-eye view of the Richmond Slave Trail. By Blake Gopnik The terrifying first capture in Africa. The deadly crossing of the Middle ...

How a man born into bondage infiltrated British camps, fed them lies, and delivered the intel that turned the American Revolution. James Armistead Lafayette’s life began in the shadows of enslavement, ...

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 ...

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