In the antebellum period, pro-slavery forces moved from defending slavery as a necessary evil to expounding it as a positive good. Some insisted that African Americans were child-like people in ...

Southern journals of the antebellum era were full of advice for slaveholders. De Bow's Review, for example, offered numerous articles detailing methods for dealing with slave discipline ...

Richard Bailey, a renowned historian from Montgomery, describes King as “one of the most prominent African American men in Alabama during the Antebellum period” and “the wealthiest African American ...

It is the second of a four-part, four-year series that depicts the lives of Black residents in Tallahassee from the Antebellum Period to the Civil Rights Era. The exhibition offers "a ...