Small African American boys of the eighteenth and ... Martha Washington at the end of 1800 freed those slaves who had belonged to him, including Letty, her three children (baby Nila and young ...

In Blandair Regional Park, there's a building that used to be the home of enslaved African Americans that was first built in ...

The Waters family story in Greenbelt and Washington is far from complete. We know nothing of their inner lives, their hopes, ...

(WTAJ) — William Nesbit, an African American man who moved to Blair County in the mid-1800s was instrumental ... after being convinced that former slaves should go and live there.

1718 William & Mary purchases the Nottoway Quarter and 17 slaves. Income from the tobacco provides scholarships ... publishes Lincoln's Job Half-Done, advocating African American students at William & ...

When the Fisk Jubilee Singers first performed in the late 1800s, they sang ballads and ... the emotions and strong faith of the African American slave. The following songs were recorded for ...