Edda Fields-Black gives a keynote speech for Juneteenth at Carnegie Mellon University in 2024. (Photo courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University) Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice ...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Descendants of U.S. Civil War hero Robert Smalls are celebrating the ex-slave who 150 years ago this weekend commandeered a Confederate steamship and evaded ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Within the walls of The Old Slave Mart, there are newspapers dated back to the 19th century. They showcase front page ads of enslaved people without a voice. "Slavery and ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement ...

YORK COUNTY, S.C. — A York County man has unearthed 144 slave gravesites buried in his backyard after working with archeologists and has since been working to restore the area. Homeowner Andrew ...

Community members in Greenville County, South Carolina, are bringing attention to a neglected cemetery that is extremely covered in ivy and briars. A pathway through Brutontown Cemetery is tough to ...

Ashworth, John. Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, 1820-1850. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Berlin, Ira. Slaves without ...

Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Connecticut, said the images depict her ancestors. A Connecticut woman filed a lawsuit against Harvard University on Wednesday, claiming it has "shamelessly" profited from ...