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Last Sunday, I met another giant of American history: the renowned abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman. Tubman was portrayed by Kathryn Harris, who is the former director of ...

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Before freedom rang for enslaved people in the 1800s, their journey brought many of them to Lake Erie's shores. Now, the lake serves as a reminder of how it was once a passport to freedom.

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The Carnegie Mellon ...

But in Confederate-controlled areas, that wasn’t put into effect. The nation’s last slaves weren’t freed until two years later, on June 19, 1865, known as Juneteenth.

In dioceses and schools across Scotland, the Caritas Cup organizes local tournaments that bring together young people from Catholic schools and parishes.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort, South Carolina, that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The ...

By 1860, there were 180,000 slaves, and by the end of the Civil War, more than 250,000. The reason for the large growth in the number of slaves between 1860 and 1865 was a diabolical one.

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The Carnegie Mellon ...

At least 37 former slaves freed by Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation are among people buried at Topeka's Ritchie Cemetery.