In 1999, a book came out titled "Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad," written by Jaqueline Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard. The authors claimed their work ...

Throughout the 1800s, black codes and pig laws were some of the efforts enacted to oppress and disenfranchise blacks in the South. ... Slavery by Another Name. Pig Laws and Imprisonment. 2:24 ...

The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave. ... With the slave codes of 1705, this no longer was the case.

And Black Codes after the Civil War stalled much of emancipation's progress. ... Native Americans adopted Black chattel slavery from Europeans as early as the 1500s, ...

“Slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their benefit.” This is written as law into the State Laws of Florida in 2023 regarding how to teach Black History.

Guns have always loomed large in Black people's lives — going all the way back to the days of colonial slavery, explains reporter Alain Stephens from The Trace.

Women did, and a lot of Black women made quilts and passed on their oral history,” said Anna Lopez, former education coordinator at the Plymouth Historical Museum in a 2007 Time Magazine article.