African American soldiers in the Civil War, the end of slavery, and Reconstruction in the South.

Slavery expanded, and so did slave rebellions and resistance during the first half of the 19th century.

Slavery was the fuel for a global cotton economy. The spread of plantations in the Deep South led to the forced ...

The Black Atlantic explores the global experiences that created the African-American people. The episode portrays the ...

Cotton fueled slavery's expansion and individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Richard Allen and Frederick Douglass, forced ...

A six-part series on African-American history spanning five centuries, by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

As just a young girl, Priscilla was purchased at a slave auction in South Carolina. She survived the deadly conditions ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses two of the earliest Africans to arrive in North America.

The first Africans in America and the beginning of plantation slavery.