More than 22,000 formerly enslaved people are found in records from Columbus that were released in a new project from Ancestry, one of the world’s largest genealogy companies.
Researchers have compared the DNA of 27 Black people who lived at the Catoctin furnace between 1774 and 1850, finding a link between these enslaved Americans and nearly 42,000 living relatives.
An enslaved Macon woman disguised herself as a free man. Her enslaved husband pretended to be that man's slave. And they both boarded a train for freedom.
Tuberville spoke at a pro-Trump rally in Nevada on Saturday ahead of the November midterm elections. The NAACP called the comments "flat out racist, ignorant and utterly sickening."