from the origins of many modern police departments in slave patrols, to the historical overlap between lynch mobs and legal executions. open image in gallery The Louisiana ACLU argues the program ...

A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

Here is a part of their story of triumph in the face of adversity in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Newton “Newt” Smith was born into slavery on the McCain ...

First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30' north latitude would be free. (This limitation was ...

(AP) — A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar ... legacies of free African American communities that grew out of slavery. The region, in the heart of Louisiana’s heavily industrialized ...

It is named Angola after the former plantation that occupied this territory, which was named for the African country that was the origin of many enslaved Africans brought to Louisiana in slavery ...

It is home to former plantations that have recently been reconfigured to highlight the true story of slavery and its legacy ... Trump was sworn into office, Louisiana's Department of Environmental ...