An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...

In July 1860, just a few days after Americans celebrated the country’s independence, a schooner slipped into Alabama’s Mobile Bay, carrying 110 captives. Their first exposure to the land of the free ...

In the United States, freedom has never been free. For Black Americans, in particular, the price of freedom has been immense, paid through generations of impossible decisions and forced compromises ...

The last voyage of the Clotilda, from Benin to Mobile Bay “represented one of the darkest eras of modern history,” Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, the commission’s executive director, said in a statement.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Midcentury Moment -- ONE. The Final Triangle Takes Shape -- TWO. Slave Traders at Work -- THREE. Aboard an Illegal American Slaver -- ...

The find, historians said, revives a story of unspeakable cruelty but also the story of a people who somehow survived this indignity and many others like it. There was a discovery last year of ...