(AP) A new database launched Wednesday lets Britons curious about their family history uncover some potentially uncomfortable information whether their ancestors owned slaves. Researchers at ...
It would establish an electronic database in the National Archives to aid black Americans’ search for information on their ancestors. A bill introduced Jan. 10 would set up a national online database ...
ATLANTA -- Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...
Years worth of work from a group of student researchers at Roanoke College has culminated in an extensive online database of enslaved people with ties to the college’s history and a memorial sculpture ...
WATCH: Reporter Tiana Woodard breaks down the first-of-its-kind directory. Eleanor Pollow was an enslaved Black woman in 17th-century Boston. She became a member of the First Church in Boston in 1696, ...
(The Root) — Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 7: Which slave literally wrote his way to freedom? Suggested Reading TikTok’s Brenay Montague Breaks Down the $1.7M Cheating Scandal, And…Whew! Inside the ...
Levant Mine, Cornwall. The Levant Mine operated from the late 18th century until its closure in 1930, mining tin and copper from beneath the sea bed. Credit - Peter Thompson—Heritage Images/Getty ...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Only 100 British companies have paid to sign up to a new voluntary slavery database, designed to fund an anti-trafficking helpline, organizers said on Monday. The ...
There are a dozen restored antebellum mansions and plantations along the west bank of the Mississippi River, on the River Road outside of New Orleans, and they are among the most popular tourist day ...