To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half times the number that were brought to the United States from Africa.

The family of U.S. pastor Josh Sullivan says he’s alive after being rescued late Tuesday. Sullivan was abducted by a group of ...

He writes and teaches about the history of African Americans and of the South. His book, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War, tells ...

Whether born slave or free, African Americans in the North found themselves ... the slavery system in the South provided food, clothing, medical care, and leisure to slaves, caring for them ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish ... "The first time in my life that I felt free was in Spain" Yates recounted in his memoirs ...

According to sources, over 5,000 African-Americans moved to Ghana alone as part of the “Year of Return” initiative, and the trend has only grown since. Countries like Ghana, Nigeria ...

National Museum of African American History and Culture Wooden drum used on the Sea Islands, South Carolina National Museum of African American History and Culture Poster advertising a James Brown ...