One of the best ways to connect with Rhode Island's Black history is by visiting the final resting place of so many free and ...

Bubbling under the surface for decades and then raging for four years, the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

For this reason, the government turned away African American voluteers who ... But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell ... graves were identified at the seventh American president's former property, called the ...