Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

It is an area where what is thought to be the largest slave rebellion in the U.S. took place. Former sugar cane plantations were places where people who were considered property themselves toiled ...

One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history is Black-owned for the first time. Over 200 years ago, scores of slaves escaped a plantation in LaPlace and marched along the ...

However, when news of the revolution spread to the French colony of Saint-Domingue, known today as Haiti, slaves revolted violently, burning plantations to the ground and executing any Frenchman ...

In August 1831, a slave, Methodist preacher, and prophet named Nat Turner led the only successful slave revolt in American history, one that left 55 white men, women, and children dead in a two-day ...

What exactly triggered the Stono Rebellion is not clear. Many slaves knew that small groups of runaways had made their way from South Carolina to Florida, where they had been given freedom and land.

Twenty-seven slaves were soon captured. Of these, six committed suicide. The rest were executed, some by being burned alive. White New Yorkers had been apprehensive before the revolt of April 6 ...

Black History Month is celebrated each February in the United States and Canada. Each nation's history is filled with notable contributions from Black individuals, many of whom overcame incredible odd ...

Then, in August 1791, a massive slave insurrection began in the northern plain of the colony. It became the largest and most successful slave revolt in history, leading to the abolition of slavery in ...

The 1795 revolt was inspired by the declaration of the Batavian Republic in the Netherlands in January that year, an offshoot of the French revolution that received military support from Paris. But ...