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Slave cemetery found on 182 year old Alabama plantation

A forgotten cemetery containing the graves of enslaved people and their descendants has been uncovered on the 182 year old ...
Sidestep: Adventures Into History on MSN

Why only one grave was marked in this slave cemetery

Hidden on a wooded hillside in Troup County, Georgia, this plantation-era slave cemetery contains dozens of graves — but only one marked headstone. This visit documents the burial ground of the ...
An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...
A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script ...
How multinational companies benefit from outsourcing and a lack of transparency to conceal labor abuses in the Global South.
The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...
Local officials in Florida's capital city have voted to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the graves of enslaved ...
The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...
A viral video captured Barbara Vickers displaying and selling “Plantation Chilluns” Dolls at the Charleston City Market ...
Set on a remote peninsula at the northern tip of the island, Bom Bom, a former fishing lodge, was the first hotel to open. A ...
As to her latest stupidity – blaming the slave trade on Jews – one can easily enough dismiss this nonsense. But of course she ...
A federal court in Illinois declined to totally dismiss a consumer’s proposed class action accusing the maker of Oreos and Toblerone products of misleading shoppers by labeling the snacks as being ...