In the antebellum period, pro-slavery forces moved from defending slavery as a necessary evil to expounding it as a positive good. Some insisted that African Americans were child-like people in ...

These patrols were similar to militias and were made up of white men who were obligated to serve for a set period. The patrols apprehended slaves outside of plantations, and they raided homes and ...

It is the second of a four-part, four-year series that depicts the lives of Black residents in Tallahassee from the Antebellum Period to the Civil Rights Era. The exhibition offers "a ...

If you look back to a time when the first natives lived in Mississippi, you will find that they used water gardens and bogs to grow wild rice and attract ...