Free black laborer Samuel Diggs provides ... the plight of runaway slaves in Civil War America. By directing the camera toward the contraband camp adjacent to Mansion House Hospital, the episode ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

A historic South Carolina church that has existed since the Civil War was recently bestowed the honor of a historical marker recognizing its roots of ministering to freed slaves. First Zion ...

More than 160 years after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil ...