While Charleston's African-American heritage can be appreciated year-round, the month of February, known as Black History month, is an ideal time to check out Boone Hall Plantation and Garden's new ...

Slave insurance was one of America’s earliest forms of industrial risk management that provided an important source of revenue for companies On the morning of April 20, 1859, a terrible explosion ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Colonial Williamsburg African American History Interpreter Harold Caldwell talked about slave life in colonial America. Describe the daily life of ...

Similar to the way people insure their cars, houses and lives, slave owners would sometimes insure their slaves. Fearful of not getting their money’s worth from their slaves, owners would sometimes ...

From 1670 until 1865, the majority of blacks living in Orangeburg County were enslaved. The life that they lived covered multifaceted conditions. Descriptions of their circumstances would vary from ...

FORT MONROE, Va. — Joseph Rogers started with his tie, unwinding the broad Balthus knot he’d wound that morning. Then, he slipped out of his shined leather shoes, his slim-fit gray vest and the ...

Sitting around a campfire late Friday, they explained, one by one, why they wanted to do this: Spend the night in the kind of crude cabin that may have housed enslaved people on small farms and large ...