WGAL NEWS 8 IN LANCASTER COUNTY. CHRISTINA HERITAGE DAYS IS BEING CELEBRATED TOMORROW AND THIS YEAR THEY’RE REMEMBERING AN EVENT FROM 1851. THAT’S WHEN FUGITIVE SLAVES CONFRONTED A SLAVEHOLDER FROM ...

Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland -- Free trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade? -- Revolt! Africans conspire with the French and Spanish ...

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

Throughout the Americas, acts of resistance undermined slaveholders’ power, destabilized systems of slavery and hastened ...

A team of Cornell researchers is collecting “thousands of stories of resistance” in the form of artifacts to shed light on part of America’s troubled past. The project, entitled “Freedom on the Move,” ...

The cast of 'Finding Freedom: The Journey of Robert Smalls,' produced by the Charleston Gaillard Center, recently held a rehearsal. The play, written by Teralyn Reiter and directed by JaMeeka Holloway ...

On Feb. 16, Yale University marked a milestone in its comprehensive, long-term examination of the university’s historical role in and associations with slavery, publishing a related peer-reviewed book ...

Gibson devotes a singular chapter, aptly titled Quill, to the period’s literature of slavery — contemporary published fiction ...

Introduction / Gary Y. Okihiro -- Resistance and Afro-American history: some notes on contemporary historiography and suggestions for further research / Herbert Aptheker -- Herbert Aptheker's ...

(This column was originally published in the Tallahassee Democrat on Feb. 19, 2012.) I wrote a story recently about the origin of Bannerman Road. It was named for the family of Charles Bannerman, a ...