US Slave

THE WHITNEY PLANTATION From the Best of New Orleans , "Whitney Plantation promises an education in American slavery, wherever...

© 2014 Ruth Felter; photography by Caro Leriche. Ruth Felter: Am I not a woman and a sister? Am I not a woman and a sist...

“I’m going down to Mississippi I’m going down a Southern road And if you never see me again Remember that I had to go” From the...

1867 Peabody’s Reconstruction Schools From the Philanthropy Roundtable   ---  After the Civil War, the American South was badly batt...

From History Engine , "Louisiana Education During Reconstruction, on 29 December 1870, Jefferson, Louisiana."  -- In 1870 the...

  Author Craig Steven Wilder From the New York Times , "Dirty Antebellum Secrets in Ivory Towers: ‘Ebony and Ivy,’ About How Slav...

Brown University’s Slavery Memorial, a work by Martin Puryear. Photo: Providence Journal by Bob Thayer From The Providence Journal ,...

From the New York Times Opinionator Disunion , "Freedom for California’s Indians," by Stacey L. Smith, on 29 April 2013 -- ...

Ota Benga in the Bronx Zoo From the Washington Post , "Basest Instinct: Case of the Zoo Pygmy Exhibited a Familiar Face of Human Natur...

 John Thornton reviewed The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas, in the New York Time s artic...

From PBS , World War I:excerpted from Jazz: A History of America's Music  -- On April 16, 1917, America entered World War ...