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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 ...
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 13, 1940), born Àbáké, was the last known survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship Clotilda.She was a Yoruba who was captured and brought to Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.
A family photo of Myra Mills, the great-great-grandmother of retired Boston University professor Michelle Johnson, who traveled to South Carolina and North Carolina to research her family history.
The daughter of a vicar in Joutseno, she became perhaps the best-known victim of the abuse suffered by the civilian population in Finland during the Russian occupation Greater Wrath. Antarah ibn Shaddad (525–608), pre-Islamic Arab born to an enslaved woman, freed by his father on the eve of battle, also a poet.
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 ...
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 ...
A majority of plantation owners and doctors balanced a plantation need to coerce as much labor as possible from a slave without causing death, infertility, or a reduction in productivity; the effort by planters and doctors to provide sufficient living resources that enabled their slaves to remain productive and bear many children; the impact of ...
After 100-plus years, descendants Blick Plantation stewards: Preservationist guesstimates 100-300 graves, mostly unmarked, in enslaved cemetery Emporia natives discover ancestors' 18th century ...