J. Marion Sims
J. Marion Sims (1813–1883), often hailed as the “father of gynecology,” practiced medicine in central Alabama from 1835 to 1849, developing groundbreaking surgical techniques and...
Category : History
Africa before Transatlantic Enslavement
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade not only distorted Africa’s economic development but also distorted views of the history and importance of the African continent itself. It...
Estevanico
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Estevanico, born around 1500 in the bustling Portuguese-controlled port town of Azemmour on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, emerged from a world of Berber heritage and Islamic...
Angelo Herndon
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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
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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
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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
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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...
The Weeping Time
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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...
Conditions of antebellum slavery
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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,...
Major Pierce Butler
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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...