Category : History

Angelo Herndon was a young African-American labor organizer who became famous for his arrest and conviction of insurrection in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1932. His case...

Buck Colbert Franklin, born on May 6, 1879, near Homer in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), emerged as a pivotal figure in...

James Henry Hammond was born on Nov. 17, 1807, in the Newberry District of South Carolina. After graduating from South Carolina College (now the University...

George Fitzhugh was born on November 9, 1806, in Prince William County, Virginia, to physician George Fitzhugh and Lucy Stuart Fitzhugh. Around 1812, the family...

Remembering “The Weeping Time”: A Dark Chapter in American History In March 1859, one of the darkest chapters in American history unfolded at the Ten...

By 1830 slavery was primarily located in the South, where it existed in many different forms. African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations,...

From British Aristocracy to American Patriot and Slaveholder Major Pierce Butler (1744–1822) stands as a complex and contradictory figure in early American history, embodying the...

Fanny Kemble, in full Frances Ann Kemble, (born Nov. 27, 1809, London, Eng.—died Jan. 15, 1893, London), popular English actress who is also remembered as...

A Legacy of Slavery on Georgia’s Coast Along Georgia’s coastal waterways lies Butler Island, a former rice plantation that once held hundreds of enslaved people...