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Frederick Douglass’s Life and Labors

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history? Beyond the very real physical

Lucia, a fourteen-year-old young girl transported to the Georgia Lowcountry during the 1760s, brought with her a deft understanding of

Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an

A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States