The big monument there marks the grave of Robert Carter III, but this is as close as I could ge.t Born in 1728 in Corotman, Virginia, Carter grew up in the true plantation elite. His grandfather Robert "King" Carter was one of the first truly...
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This is the grave of James Henry Hammond, one of the worst humans in American history, Born into the slaveholding class in 1807 in Newberry County, South Carolina, Hammond grew.
The British crown, as it turns out: The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the.
The Trump administraiton is making sure that you can't learn about slavery: National Park Service staff on Thursday took down an exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, which had been targeted last year by President Donald Trump in an executive order on “restoring...
Annette Gordon-Reed's new essay about Jefferson's contradictions is well worth your time. We live in an era when Blacks and Whites, despite the end of de jure segregation, tend to.
This is the type of history--you know, exploring what really happened instead of repeating bullshit myths--that leads to Chris Rufo demanding personal control over all of higher education. Because, you.
On October 10, 1842, a planter Eli Capell noted the precise amount of cotton picked by each of his slaves in his logbooks. This seemingly minor moment is in fact a really useful way to understnad a core part of our labor history--how planters used...
As we enter the Second Jim Crow, there is no place for Black history in America's stories of itself. Quite literally: The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs.
This is good news for those of us who care about a truthful discussion of the historical record: At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President.
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus stumbled upon Hispaniola. Part of the revolution he wrought was transforming work in the Americas, because what he wanted and how he treated the Taino there would be repeated throughout the Americas by every European colonial power. What he...
There's a new study out looking at the wealth of members of Congress whose ancestors owned slaves compared with members of Congress whose ancestors did not own slaves. Will it.
The grave with the cracked stone is the grave of Robert Finley. Born in 1772 in Princeton, New Jersey, Finley grew up pretty well off. His parents had come from.