Forced Marriage as a 12-Year-Old Girl: The Life of America’s Last Slave Ship Survivor
By Becky Little | History Like many African people forced into American slavery, Redoshi…
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A slave mother’s love in 56 carefully stitched words
By AMINA AL-SADI & JEANNIE YANDEL | KUOW For about $300, a 9-year-old girl named…
Slave quarters of Sally Hemings, mother of 6 of Thomas Jefferson’s children, excavated after tourist bathroom built over it
By CECILE BORKHATARIA FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Archaeologists have unearthed and excavated an…
How the Daughter of a Slave Became the First African-American Woman to Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
Erin Blakemore | Time This piece is part of an ongoing series on the unsung women of…
The Horrible Fate of John Casor, The First Black Man to be Declared Slave for Life in America
By Kat Eschner, SMITHSONIAN.COM The only date definitely connected to John Casor’s…