Both free and enslaved African American people in antebellum America composed and performed music in a wide variety of styles. Like their white counterparts, they listened to and performed the ...

Watch 'Abbott Elementary' star Sheryl Lee Ralph discover her ancestor was a free Black man in the mid 1800s on an exclusive ...

Understanding the history of African Americans is crucial to understanding ... how the life of an enslaved person changed from the Antebellum period through Emancipation, then analyze primary ...