Edda Fields-Black gives a keynote speech for Juneteenth at Carnegie Mellon University in 2024. (Photo courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University) Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice ...

CHARLESTON, SOAKING IN ITS BEAUTY AND HOSPITALITY, IT’S EASY TO FORGET THE DARKER CHAPTERS THAT UNFOLDED HERE. THE STORY OF THE ENSLAVED IN CHARLESTON FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO THE AUCTION BLOCK OF ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...

The work lives of plantation slave women -- The work lives of plantation mistresses -- Expectations of white womanhood -- Plantation mistresses' behavior towards slave women -- Plantation mistresses ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement ...

This week, Ambassador Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and a rising contender for the Republican presidential nomination, claimed that the cause of the Civil War was about “how the ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history ...