UVA legal expert Amanda Frost explains the president’s executive order, the constitutional amendment he seeks to overturn and ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

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

According to the census of 1860, there were in the United States, in round numbers, 487,000 free negroes, of which the fifteen slave-holding States contained 251,000. Virginia stood first ...

Cart before the horse Macon County officials may be getting ahead of themselves. But they recently disclosed plans for ...

In 1835, he enrolled at the University of Virginia, and after an argument ... railing against the threats to slavery and any suggestion of equality of the races. With the election of Abraham Lincoln ...

In 1835, he enrolled at the University of Virginia ... the threats to slavery and any suggestion of equality of the races. With the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, he co-wrote the ...

Seven southern states seceded from the north after Abraham Lincoln came to power in 1860. Lincoln was the first Republican president elected who pledged to abolish slavery, threatening the ...

He is believed to be the first Black musician to perform at the White House, for President James Buchanan in 1860 ... Virginia. It is an aural telling of the 1861 battle through a medley of slave ...

The Decatur Herald-Review reports that plans by Virginia-based Revolutionary Racing ... especially Southern anger over the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as the nation’s president.

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the piano prodigy known as “Blind Tom.” ...