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The highest rates of suicide amongst enslaved people brought to Thirteen Colonies and United States appeared to have occurred during and immediately after the Middle Passage. [6] The proximate psychological cause of these suicides was the "trauma of captivity" leading to either " anxiety and self-mutilation or depression and stupor."
McLeod Plantation is a former slave plantation located on James Island, South Carolina, near the intersection of Folly and Maybank roads at Wappoo Creek, which flows into the Ashley River. [2] The plantation is considered an important Gullah heritage site, preserved in recognition of its cultural and historical significance to African-American ...
The Health of Slaves on Southern Plantations. Gloucester: Louisiana State University Press. Dunaway, Wilma A (2003). The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. "The Carmichaels and the Health Care of Slaves". Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. University of Virginia. 2005.
Prior to 1870’s post-emancipation census, enslaved individuals were often listed only by their first names, gender and age. “To put it in a nutshell, you’re looking for people listed as ...
On Saturday, June 22, 2024, I stood outside of the cemetery gates with Knightdale community members and fellow Black descendants of Midway Plantation for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Researchers estimate there are less than 30 incorporated historic Black towns left in the United States, a fraction of more […] The post Descendants of enslaved people fight to save historic ...
James Howland (1758-1859) was also one of Rhode Island's last legal former slaves, and was enslaved until 1842. [34] [35] D'Wolf and Howland are likely not the last slaves, due to RI's gradual emancipation with several legally slaves still listed in the 1840 census, and likely enslaved until the 1843 RI Constitution banned all slavery. Hannah ...
Hogg Hummock is one of just a few communities in the South of people known as Gullah, or Geechee, in The post Descendants of enslaved people could lose inherited Ga. land after zoning change ...