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Visitors to Booker T. Washington National Monument can step back in time to experience what is was like for Washington as a slave on the Burrough family plantation in Franklin County. But while they ...

Nineteenth-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery, shared this perspective of pre-Civil War slaves singing in the fields: “I have often been utterly astonished…to find ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the Confederate circles he navigated, John Scobell was considered just another Mississippi slave: singing, shuffling, illiterate and completely ignorant of the Civil War going on ...