In the United States, power often comes down to documentation. For centuries, those in power have used documents to police ...

The story of the Underground Railroad is largely taught in American history as a northern route that slaves used to escape and find their freedom, but a new exhibit at a University of Texas museum … ...

Yet, through the power of this hallowed legacy, we are able, even now, to distinguish between slavery and freedom, between that which befits our pure spirit and that which has penetrated our life ...

LANSING — A rare document belonging to a Mason man who bought his freedom from slavery will go on display Monday at the Archives of Michigan, located inside the Michigan Historical Center. Just ...

Peter Oliver was a professional potter whose life was documented in over 30 historical records including his freedom papers. The new gallery in Winston-Salem will be called the “Peter Oliver ...

In her master’s thesis – “Journey to Freedom from Nebraska Territory” – Gail Shaffer Blankenau shines a light on a dark part of early Nebraska history by addressing slavery through the ...

Chronicle, on Slavery. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

Book explores Haida man’s quest for freedom that ended slavery in Alaska. ... Sah Quah had come to the American court, he said, to seek “papers” freeing him from his bonds.