Black Brooklynites had a very sophisticated understanding of their own freedom, of contouring what ... Prior to 1821, any man, regardless of race, as long as they had $100 worth of property ...

A Black man is troubled by the legacy of American slavery ... the formerly enslaved and their descendants to fight for freedom in an often unjust society.

For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story is incomplete. What is far less known is that the majority of enslaved ...