from the origins of many modern police departments in slave patrols, to the historical overlap between lynch mobs and legal executions. open image in gallery The Louisiana ACLU argues the program ...

A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...

Here is a part of their story of triumph in the face of adversity in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Newton “Newt” Smith was born into slavery on the McCain ...

the migration of slaves to the lower South increased the slave population in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas from 530,404 to 943,881. Even with this enormous ...

1792-1821: 6 new slave states enter the United States: Kentucky (1792), Tennessee (1796); Louisiana (1812), Mississippi (1817), Alabama (1819), and Missouri (1821) Territory north of 36 degrees 30 ...

It is home to former plantations that have recently been reconfigured to highlight the true story of slavery and its legacy ... Trump was sworn into office, Louisiana's Department of Environmental ...