In the 1940s, the land around a private graveyard was claimed by the federal government to expand military facilities, and a ...

The sale would thereafter be known as "the weeping time." The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier, along with his brother John.

Her father was the slave master. Mark Smith -- Blaine's brother -- and Janet Paige Smith are determined to keep their family property in Sparta, Georgia. She had children with white farmer David ...

A West Virginia judge tears into the "reprehensible and narcissistic" defense of the white couple she says have shown no ...

Of the approximately 210,000 counted in Georgia during the 1860 census ... compares the Civil War’s impact on people who owned slaves and those who did not. They are also interested in the ...

The 14-year-old was found in Colorado on Sunday, Feb. 23, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office announced on March 5 Douglas County Sheriff A boy who was abducted from Georgia seven years ago has ...

A Black history class at Georgia Tech is using research to connect ... who owned about 800 slaves. The students are working in their African American History class to connect with descendants.

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has, for the second time, reversed the renaming of a U.S. military base, saying that Fort Moore in Georgia ... known for owning slaves and losing ...

The base was originally named for Lt. Gen. Henry Benning, a Confederate general and Southern secessionist who opposed freeing slaves. A congressionally mandated commission, the Naming Commission ...