If the world were just, the name of Nance Legins-Costley would resonate amid the likes of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and other abolitionist rebels. But her story is hardly known. Not in ...

PEKIN, Illinois — A Black woman who was born a slave, Nance Legins-Costley and her extraordinary story didn’t make it into the history books. The longtime Pekin resident’s freedom was the subject of a ...

Washington. The widow Washington ; Martha Dandridge ; Married lady ; Mistress of Mount Vernon ; Revolutionary war ; First lady ; Slaves in the president's house ; Home again -- Jefferson. Martha ...

Five hundred years ago this month, the Americas saw its first revolt of enslaved people, when Black Africans rose up against colonial powers in the Caribbean. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Slavery is perhaps one of the oldest profit making endeavors in human history and the Irish were a special target for a thousand years, persecuted by one faction or another, to include enslavement and ...