Harriet Bell Hayden is believed to have helped hundreds of people fleeing slavery from her Beacon Hill residence ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

Argus, lamenting the decline in the value of slaves, reports the sale at $800 ... labor of the South was in 1859 worth $1200,000,000, in 1860 it is worth less than $800,000,000 -- a sudden ...

DESPITE the American Civil War ending nearly 160 years ago – there was still one place in the world where the Confederate South was seemingly alive and well. Welcome to the town of Santa ...

Gerald Ensley Bicentennial Project announces the 10th edition of rolling list of 200 people who laid a foundation for our ...

Virginia and Kentucky will be left to deal with Slavery in their own way. If made border States outside of the Union, on the contrary, the North will be restrained by no legal obligations ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

This bill sees a portrait of Governor Letcher in the center, who served in that capacity from 1860 to 1864 ... and issued in Richmond, Virginia. They bear a vignette of the painting “General ...

Many men in history are brought high by their ambitions, only to fall from their vices.  Louis Wigfall, an attorney, ...

A slave could become free by converting to Christianity. The first Virginia colonists did not even think of themselves as "white" or use that word to describe themselves. They saw themselves as ...

Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day’s farm labor during the Great Depression. As ...