Get fearless, uncompromising truth in your inbox. Subscribe to The Real News. Sign up In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue revolted, rising up by the thousands. Within ten ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Along the Mississippi River sits a winding road; its curvature is aligned with the levee. Centuries-old estates are also abundant, situated on vast grounds upriver from New ...
Juneteenth, the holiday that's been referred to as America's second Independence Day, commemorates when the last group of enslaved people in Texas learned they were officially free. Decades before the ...
A new plaque at Virgin Islands National Park commemorates a revolt that nearly succeeded in upending St. John’s slaveholding establishment. Sometime in the spring of 1734, according to some accounts, ...
LaPLACE, La. — The insurgents, dressed in the linen uniforms of slaves and wielding clubs and guns, swarmed the sprawling white plantation house and attacked its owner. The anger and resentment that ...
South Carolina, September 9, 1739: A band of slaves march down the road, carrying banners that proclaim "Liberty!". They shout out the same word. Led by an Angolan named Jemmy, the men and women ...
The Woodland Plantation House sits near the banks of the Mississippi River in LaPlace, La. The raised creole-style building with a rusty tin roof and wide front porch has Black owners for the first ...
In 1811, more than 200 enslaved people in present-day Louisiana launched the largest insurgency of people in bondage in U.S. history. The revolt lasted only a few days before the poorly armed rebels ...
SOUTHAMPTION COUNTY, VIRGINIA (WTKR) — Juneteenth, the holiday that’s been referred to as America’s second Independence Day, commemorates when the last group of enslaved people in Texas learned they ...
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