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 ...

M ost people know Harriet Tubman as the Black abolitionist who led about 70 enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad, but that’s just part of her story. The forme ...

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 ...