CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Descendants of U.S. Civil War hero Robert Smalls are celebrating the ex-slave who 150 years ago this weekend commandeered a Confederate steamship and evaded ...

Robert Smalls made headlines when he commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War. Library of Congress South Carolina plans to erect a statue honoring Robert Smalls, a man who escaped slavery ...

CHARLESTON, SOAKING IN ITS BEAUTY AND HOSPITALITY, IT’S EASY TO FORGET THE DARKER CHAPTERS THAT UNFOLDED HERE. THE STORY OF THE ENSLAVED IN CHARLESTON FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO THE AUCTION BLOCK OF ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The historic South Carolina city of Charleston was removing a symbol of its legacy on Wednesday, sending crews to take away a statue honoring John C. Calhoun, an early U.S.

BOSTON, Massachusetts — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history ...

Harvard University has reached a settlement with a woman to end a long legal battle over slave photos. Tamara Lanier of Norwich, Connecticut claims she's a descendant of two of the slaves shown in the ...

If you stand outside the International African American Museum and look over the harbor toward the Atlantic—the direction from which slave ships once sailed from Africa bringing their shackled cargo ...