The monument, which was erected on the courthouse grounds in 1902, features a Confederate soldier standing atop a pedestal, with one of the markings below mentioning “faithful slaves.” ...

And former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan said she learned after records of Britain’s Slave Compensation Commission were put ...

LOUIS – In a relentless rainstorm, a groundbreaking ceremony was held, attributing to the sacrifice of African American ... “We have absolutely no monument representing the color troops ...

Instead, you would see tens of millions of native people already living in the Americas, joined by an extraordinary flow not of European colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th ...

Courtesy of First Baptist Church His Arthur Ashe Monument, once the sole tribute to an African American on Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue, now remains the only one standing. The sculpture ...

European traders such as Nicolas Owen waited at these forts for slaves; African traders transported slaves from the interior of Africa. Equiano and others found themselves sold and traded more ...

By the time of Washington's death in 1799, roughly ninety percent of the plantation's population consisted of over three hundred African American slaves (forty of whom Washington rented from a ...

On Saturday, the Virginia Society Children of the American Revolution and the African American Heritage Society of New Kent County will be hosting a ceremony to unveil a monument dedicated to ...

It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…" Some of the descendants of African traders are alive ...

It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia ...