Enslaved African Americans could never forget their status as property, no matter how well their owners treated them. But it would be too simplistic to say that all masters and slaves hated each ...

Following the defeat of the British at Yorktown in 1781, the most difficult issue to be resolved was the fate of the tens of thousands of African American slaves who had joined the British during ...

It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…" Some of the descendants of African traders are alive ...