Marshall, Texas has a rich history, having served as the seat of justice for the Panola Judicial District, the first ...

The slaves had come to San Bernardino in 1852 with their owner, Robert Smith, part of the Mormon founding of the community.

Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of their freedom. While President Andrew Johnson freed his slaves, his legacy is complex due to his ...

That news did not reach the enslaved people in Texas until two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed blacks in Confederate states.

Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, marks the day emancipated slaves in Galveston, Texas, finally found out they were free, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...

Flashback: "Rhetoric of Freedom," (September, 1999) "Emancipation is the demand of civilization," Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in April, 1862. "That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue." ...