An indigenous Moraea plant of the Iris family has been found on Botmaskop outside Stellenbosch. The plant, now scientifically described, emerged from ground cleared by the felling of a decades-old ...

Some worry about the implications of disturbing the graves of people who were exploited and enslaved. Others hope the remains ...

Liberia was founded with support from slaveholders and abolitionists for various reasons, marking a unique historical moment.

By the time of Washington's death in 1799, roughly ninety percent of the plantation's population consisted of over three hundred African American slaves (forty of whom Washington rented from a ...

The land remembers. And when it is taken back, it will be by force of history, by force of justice, by force of a people who refuse to be enslaved yet again, writes Gillian Schutte.

DANVILLE — A decision to move the remains of hundreds of African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation to a dedicated burial ground has elicited a range of emotions ...