Free People of Color - AAIHS

Slavery, Family Separation, and the Ransom Case of John Weems

During the nineteenth century, several state laws prohibited, or restricted the ability of African Americans to testify against white people.

In November 2017, 61-year-old Paulette Wilson decided to publicly share her story of being detained in the infamous Yarl’s Wood

In June 2018, two news reports encapsulated a problem in American race relations: a white person says something racist, apologizes

In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”