Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...

Social climbing is not an activity most of us associate with the whips and chains of slavery. Yet, as William Andrews, the E. Maynard Adams professor of English at UNC Chapel Hill, shows us in a ...

The power of storytelling has always been at the heart of Black resistance. Long before social media activism and viral videos exposed injustice, enslaved Black Americans wielded their narratives as ...

His account of bondage in Edenton described men flogged 100 times and doused with brandy to increase the pain, and white owners so cruel they whipped other people’s slaves for failing to tip their ...

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What ghost stories of the formerly enslaved tell us about their lives. By Jennifer Wilson In 1937, workers with the Federal Writers’ Project (F.W.P.), a New Deal program for unemployed writers, were ...

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 ...

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project collected the narratives of former slaves in the United States. Clint Smith of The Atlantic speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about these stories. School kids ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Kari Winter, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of global gender and sexuality studies, is writing a screenplay for a four-part television miniseries that she hopes will bring the ...

A scholar raises questions, and hackles, with evidence that the ex-slave who wrote the definitive first-person account of the Middle Passage may not have made that infamous journey What if you were ...