There is a moment in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel “Invisible Man,” when the narrator arrives in New York City and is amazed by what he perceives as the unlimited freedom enjoyed by the city’s Black ...

In the past we have advised you to take advantage of holiday gatherings and the summer-reunion season to collect information from your relatives about family history. Get your kin talking, pull out a ...

Kari Winter, professor of global gender and sexuality studies, is writing a screenplay for a four-part television miniseries that she hopes will bring the life of Jeffrey Brace, an enslaved man who ...

Movies about slavery are considered 'trauma porn' by many audiences these days, particularly African American ones. Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) was a powerful look at the minutiae of the ...

Gloria Feimster, a 92-year-old Raleigh native, told WRAL News she discovered part of her grandmother’s story lives in the Library of Congress. Her grandmother, Emma Blalock, was interviewed in 1937 ...

His account of bondage in Edenton described men flogged 100 times and doused with brandy to increase the pain, and white owners so cruel they whipped other people’s slaves for failing to tip their ...

"I will run away" -- Running to be free. From A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery. With an appendix, containing a list of places visited by the author in ...

A scholar raises questions, and hackles, with evidence that the ex-slave who wrote the definitive first-person account of the Middle Passage may not have made that infamous journey What if you were ...

Harriet Jacobs endured seven years of hiding in an attic crawl space in order to escape the terror and misery of her life as a slave. "I lived in that little dismal ...