First devised during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the laws and justice system governing the institution of Negro slavery in the British North American colonies of Virginia and Maryland constituted but one element in a complex matri
Far beneath the busy cityscape of New York's lower Manhattan lies a centuries-old cemetery. The burial ground, discovered in 1991 by construction workers, contains more than 400 remains of what is believed to be the first group of African slaves brou
The thousands of sunbathers who flock each year``to this island's Higgs Beach don't know the grim secret buried``beneath it for almost 140 years. Unwittingly, they lay their towels``atop a burial ground, an unmarked cemetery for 294 African slav
Better treated than their counterparts in some colonies, Concord slaves could exercise certain rights, had to be educated in the ways of God and religion, often were inclusive parts of the family served and could obtain freeman status.
