In Maryland, USA, she operated the 'Underground Railroad', a series of hidden safe houses utilised to aid enslaved ...

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

all slaves were free, and any slave that opted to remain on a plantation must be treated as a hired worker — the remaining enslaved individuals were not freed immediately or even soon there ...

We sometimes imagine that such oppressive laws were put quickly into full force by greedy landowners. But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually ...

Our struggle inspired others around the world that they too could be free from the slave trade and colonial control. Lord Grenville: It was a long battle. There were hundreds of petitions to ...

From Slavery to Legacy - Alonzo Herndon is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

and the selling of him in Virginia as a slave. The name of the alleged kidnapper is MASON THOMAS, and that of the colored man GEORGE ANDERSON. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Crispus Attucks is shot and killed by British soldiers becoming the first American to die in the struggle for American Independence from England. Attucks was an escaped slave who became a sailor and ...

By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri requested to become a new state, one which allowed slavery. The North ...