It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

WGAL NEWS 8 IN LANCASTER COUNTY. CHRISTINA HERITAGE DAYS IS BEING CELEBRATED TOMORROW AND THIS YEAR THEY’RE REMEMBERING AN EVENT FROM 1851. THAT’S WHEN FUGITIVE SLAVES CONFRONTED A SLAVEHOLDER FROM ...

The Great Resistance, an expansive new book by author and historian Carrie Gibson, brings together often unheard narratives to tell the bigger picture of a difficult time ...

A team of Cornell researchers is collecting “thousands of stories of resistance” in the form of artifacts to shed light on part of America’s troubled past. The project, entitled “Freedom on the Move,” ...

Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland -- Free trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade? -- Revolt! Africans conspire with the French and Spanish ...

The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of many studies, but the individual life histories of the arrival and survival ...

(This column was originally published in the Tallahassee Democrat on Feb. 19, 2012.) I wrote a story recently about the origin of Bannerman Road. It was named for the family of Charles Bannerman, a ...