Movies about slavery are considered 'trauma porn' by many audiences these days, particularly African American ones. Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) was a powerful look at the minutiae of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The writing was already on the wall for the end of slavery, but a few last desperate words made it into print on April 22, 1865.

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Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love and make a baby. Except, among slaves in the antebellum South, this usually makes for unimaginable heartache and loss as family lineages are bought, sold, ...

"I will run away" -- Running to be free. From A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery. With an appendix, containing a list of places visited by the author in ...

Throughout the 1800s, enslaved people in the South fled their plantations and made their way to the Rio Grande, Mexico. The Southbound Underground Railroad has been largely overlooked, mainly because ...