Black Loyalists were former slaves encouraged by the Crown ... African Americans migrated to Canada to escape slavery and segregation. Others came from rural Canada seeking opportunity in the ...

A former slave who saved many lives at the Outer Banks as a Coast Guard captain had a bridge named in his honor on Tuesday. Capt. Richard Etheridge was born a slave in 1842. He rose to become the ...

Ex- slave and founder of the “Underground Railroad”, Harriet Tubman (far left), with a group of former slaves whose ... in the north or to the safety of Canada. The Railroad was most active ...

Historians discuss labor relations between former slaves and former masters after the Civil War. Ed Ayers: Perhaps the most fundamental thing that had to be decided the day that slavery ended was ...

Schroeder just republished “The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots,” a first-person narrative from John Swanson Jacobs, a former slave ... places like Canada, the UK ...