NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Against the modern backdrop of oil refineries, strip malls and gated communities, hundreds of reenactors will gather Friday in southeastern Louisiana to remember a time when slavery ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A former slave’s attempt to lead a rebellion in Charleston during the summer of 1822 would forever alter life in the Lowcountry, even though the uprising never occurred.

This week, Ambassador Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and a rising contender for the Republican presidential nomination, claimed that the cause of the Civil War was about “how the ...

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

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