Meaning of freedom - AAIHS

Slavery and Memory in Charleston, South Carolina

The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not

In today’s post, Keisha N. Blain, Senior Editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Nelson Mundell about the new online database, Runaway Slaves

Mentha Morrison wanted her husband back. The problem was not domestic, it was legal. Jackson Morrison owed the state of

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

During the nineteenth century, several state laws prohibited, or restricted the ability of African Americans to testify against white people.