Those were far beyond Harriet’s control. She was Black at a time when people in Alabama who looked like her were slaves. Seven years before she was born, the Alabama Legislature had banned free ...

In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train ... and Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, collectively evoking the history of slavery in America. "Artists have the ability to depict the humanity and ...

but many slave owners in the South like Meaher continued it for years. After the Civil War, Africans brought on Meaher's covert trip would go on to found Africatown, Alabama, where many of their ...

Fancher was caught off guard when she started regaling him with wild stories about her grandfather with a “roguish streak” who was born into slavery on an Alabama plantation and proceeded to ...