In areas such as Southeastern Virginia, the "Low Country" of the Carolinas, and around Galphintown near Savannah, Georgia, communities of Afro-Indians began to arise. The term "mustee" came to distinguish between those who shared Afric
The status of the Negro was the focal problem of Reconstruction. Slavery had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, but the white people of the South were determined to keep the Negro in his place, socially, politically, and economically. This was do
In August, 1788, a dirt farmer named Thomas Foster of Natchez purchased for $930 two slaves--dos negros brutos the deed said, meaning that they were recent imports from Africa. One of the slaves was named Samba, meaning "second son" in the Pular
Henry Box Brown was born a slave Louisa County, Virginia, in 1815. He married a local slave but in 1849 his wife and children were sold to a plantation owner in North Carolina. Soon afterwards Brown decided to escape and with the help of a sympathetic tob
On Thursday, June 29, 1820, at 3:00 P.M., nineteen years before the "Amistad" incident, 283 African slaves -- two dead and 281 in chains --- all aboard a slave vessel named, "The Antelope," were recaptured by the United States Treasury
- Hal's Lake lies deep in Clarke County, near the community of Carlton, just north of where the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers converge. The lake is named for an escaped slave from Mississippi who, according to legend, discovered the isolated body of w
TEN DOLLARS REWARD - Ran away on the 28th instl, my Negro boy BILL MIDDLETON, aged about 16 years; quite dark; is a good looking boy. He has a sister or two living in Frederick street, and it is likely he will be lurking about them. I will give the above
Slavery was not consistent nationally, regionally, or even on a statewide basis. Maryland, a border state, known as "the middle temperament" and "the middle ground," was no exception. The Eastern Shore in the 1840s and 1850s, just prio
Previous to the founding of the colonies of Liberia, the slave trade was rife throughout the whole of what is termed the Grain Coast; in fact,from the Gambia to Cape Palmas, an extent of over 1,500 miles of coast line, excepting only, Sierra Leone and its
