Unlike the other two Telfair Museums – the Jepson Center and Telfair Academy – the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters focuses ... upper class in 19th-century Savannah: You'll see Greek ...

Many visitors said they had to do their own independent research to understand the history of slavery ... with a museum and theater, there is also a gift shop and picnic area. Savannah Hop-On ...

During the 1700 and 1800s, holidays for the enslaved in downtown Savannah were not ... blend of the three in the Urban Slavery Exhibit at the Davenport House Museum to honor and recognize the ...

This year, the theme of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute Benefit is " Superfine: Tailoring Black ...

“This new exhibit offers insight into Savannah’s vibrant Chinese-American community in the early 1900s.” In November of 2023, the Davenport House Museum opened an immersive urban slavery ...

Badge laws existed in several Southern cities, urban centers such as Mobile and New Orleans, Savannah and Norfolk; the practice of hiring out slaves was ... are in various museums around the ...

Louisiana's Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.—lost its federal grants as a result of Trump's attack on DEI.

Following the defeat of the British at Yorktown in 1781, the most difficult issue to be resolved was the fate of the tens of thousands of African American slaves who had joined the British during ...