Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Samuel I. Cabell (1802 - July 18, 1865) was a wealthy Virginia plantation owner in the Kanawha River valley who may have been murdered for marrying one of his former slaves and providing for their descendants. Although seven white men were acquitted of crime, his will was honored and his descendants went on to lead productive lives.
Genocide, mass murder, forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, starvation, internment, genocidal rape, cultural genocide: Deaths: 96% population drop (1492–1900) [a] +4 million (est. 1492-1776) [3] 350,000 (58% population decline from 1800 to 1890) [4] Victims: 98% loss of ancestral homelands [5] Perpetrators: United States
Johnson, 68, traveled to North and South Carolina to research her maternal family history, discovering that Mills had owned Jerry and Myra, Johnson's great-great-grandparents, as slaves.
The status of three slaves who traveled from Kentucky to the free states of Indiana and Ohio depended on Kentucky slave law rather than Ohio law, which had abolished slavery. 1852: Lemmon v. New York: Superior Court of the City of New York: Granted freedom to slaves who were brought into New York by their Virginia slave owners, while in transit ...
The post Descendants of enslaved people fight to save historic Black communities appeared first on TheGrio. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...
After 100-plus years, descendants Blick Plantation stewards: Preservationist guesstimates 100-300 graves, mostly unmarked, in enslaved cemetery Emporia natives discover ancestors' 18th century ...
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.