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Pauline Baker, Daisy Whitner, John Williams and Priscilla Williams Carolina are all descendants of potter David Drake. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In the 1850s, David Drake spent his days making large ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Nestled between four red brick buildings at the center of Davidson College, two bronze, work-weathered hands cradle the earth. It’s a ...

BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a ...

ST. LOUIS – St. Louis University was set to apologize for enslaving people. Hours before the ceremony, a group of descendants of Black people the school enslaved backed out, citing concerns that the ...

A bipartisan effort is underway to establish a permanent memorial honoring the work of the 15 men the state rented and forced to quarry limestone for the building. One proposal would designate the Dr.

One by one, descendants of people who were enslaved on the Brattonsville plantation grabbed a wreath and placed it at the foot of the only headstone in the cemetery. At least 481 bodies were buried, ...

Ana Lucia Araujo receives funding from American Council of Learned Societies. During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved men, women and children also enjoyed the holidays. Slave owners ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Decades of research and archeology led to a recent, historic discovery on Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage property. Without disturbing the graves, archaeologists confirmed the ...

A cemetery where enslaved people were laid to rest has been found at The Hermitage, the former plantation of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. This discovery sheds light on ...