During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is ...

The South Haven Historical Association will hold a presentation Tuesday on the role Southwest Michigan played helping slaves ...

In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...