Slavery

In October 1856, Harriet Tubman escaped arrest at this site while attempting to reunite an enslaved woman named Tilly with her fiancé.

A unique museum that uses visual art and storytelling to reveal the hidden history of the Gullah Geechee and their African ancestors.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.

Not only is this nature preserve the largest protected freshwater island on the East Coast, but it’s also a stronghold of Gullah living.

This Myrtle Beach art museum features a rotating display of pieces by artists from James Audubon to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s their collection of Southern works that truly impresses.