TAG: 19th century. Free Blacks Lived in the North, ... and that dark chapter in American history involved far more black people than were taken from Africa to the United States.

Reed recalls his experience of prison life in the 19th century in a singular, clear voice. His was not a typical story of a black man living in pre-Civil War America.

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Best-selling author and attorney Lawrence Otis Graham has turned his attention to what he calls America's first black dynasty, that of Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first full-term African American ...