NMAF copy 39088013968409 is a gift from Ms. Betty A. Brooks & Mrs. Barbara B. Jackson. "The plantation was a battlefield where slaves fought masters for physical and psychological survival. Although ...

Prologue -- Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane ...

Slave insurance was one of America’s earliest forms of industrial risk management that provided an important source of revenue for companies On the morning of April 20, 1859, a terrible explosion ...

Jim and Dottie Griffin made only one stop on the Montpelier tour last week. It wasn't the interior of James Madison's former home -- they had visited that before. The elderly white couple from Alabama ...