In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about an African American genealogy resource: slave narratives recorded by the Federal Writers’ Project... (Read More)
An article about a resolution passed in the U.S. House on 11 February 1861 guaranteeing non-interference with slavery in any state of the Union... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to learn more about publisher, journalist and abolitionist John Brown Russwurm... (Read More)
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about researching the life of Lewis Hathaway, a former slave born in Kentucky in 1824 who bought his own freedom... (Read More)
An article about the American Colonization Society’s 1820 voyage of freed blacks going to Africa from the U.S.A.; the new colony became Liberia in 1847... (Read More)
An article about President Abraham Lincoln issuing the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on 22 September 1862, to free the Confederacy’s slaves... (Read More)