At the height of its development as a plantation ... The Mount Vernon slaves hunted and trapped animals for income, both physical and documentary evidence suggests. Within the past decade ...

Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to confront questions about the social order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom presents a ...

The American Civil War destroyed slavery in the South. At first, most white Americans denied what would eventually seem self-evident. But black Americans saw clearly that the sectional conflict was ...

The Why is launching a series of ground-breaking documentary films which asks why slavery remains so endemic ... to pick tea leaves at plantations, to work as domestic helpers and even sold ...

Perhaps most surprisingly, the records detail a number of children born to plantation owners and enslaved women who inherited their fathers' slaves. A striking example is politician John Stewart ...