Slavery

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 11, 2013 - Drug trafficking is the No. 1 illegal trade in the world, and trafficking in human…

In August 1619, 20 Africans were chained and unwillingly brought from West Africa to Point Comfort, Virginia, and sold into slavery. Historians point to…

For the past 30 years, Keith Winstead has been tracing the many generations of his family history.“When I first started genealogy, I thought I’d be lucky…

It’s the early to mid 1800s in Missouri. The state’s German population is seeing an increase, especially in the cities of St. Louis and Hermann. Many are…

The legacy of fugitive slave provisions in the antebellum United States is often lost in contemporary retellings of the history of slavery.Andrew…

Before the Civil War, Bernard Lynch owned the largest slave market in St. Louis. His operation included an office at 104 Locust Street, and a holding pen…

Georgetown University made headlines last week when it announced it would make amends for selling 272 slaves in 1838, a transaction worth $3 million in…

Why would anyone invite thousands of 19th-century German immigrants to join us in the middle of February, the month dedicated to American black…

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln saw his home state of Illinois become the first to ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, banning slavery. He’d…

For more than 150 years, people have told the tale of  "Mother" Priscilla Baltimore, a former slave who is said to have led 11 families of fugitive and…