In 1844, John W. Jones escaped a plantation in Virginia and walked to New York,...  ...ation in Virginia and walked to New York, dodging slave catchers, with four other men. He settled in Elmi...  ...American soldiers—who it considered captive slaves , not prisoners of war...

Robert Smalls was good at what he did, so good tha...  ...war and possibly spend the rest of his life as a slave . After meticulous preparations, he jumped at a su...

Scholastic pulled a children’s book called A...  ...reviews. The book shows George Washington’s slave chef Hercules and his daughter Delia joyfully pre...  ...viewers understandably object to the portrayal of slavery as joyful, particularly as it is introduced to yo...  ...story is fascinating. He is...

During the days of slavery in America, there were plenty of people willing t...