While Black Wall Streets were business hubs within larger cities, Freedom Colonies were rural, self-sufficient Black settlements built by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The red square on this 1767 map of St. Croix marks where Danes believed the Maroon settlement was. Paul Kuffner/Royal Danish ...

During St. Croix’s time as property of the Danish West India-Guinea Company, roughly 10 percent of the enslaved population escaped and formed a hidden community in the mountains. To this day, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Justin Dunnavant, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) “For a long ...