For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story is incomplete. What is far less known is that the majority of enslaved ...

We’ve all surely heard about the Underground Railroad’s land routes slaves used to escape the antebellum South, but did you ...

as well as the role of Jews in the antebellum South, the extent to which they suffered from anti-semitism and the extent to which they believed in white supremacy and slavery. The patriarch ...

Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping an abusive father, and the other escaping slavery — went straight to the heart of the question ...

Michael Ray Charles is a contemporary American painter. His work explores historic African American stereotypes from the Antebellum South, appropriating images from advertising and pop culture to ...