Harvesting cannabis in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley as a migrant labourer in 2023, Maria recalls being surprised when her boss invited her and two friends for dinner at his home in the nearby ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORTH KINGSTOWN – The story of Casey Farm can't be told without talking about slavery. Like other 18th-century farms in southern ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly known as Angola), which sits on the site of a former slave plantation, has long forced incarcerated people, primarily Black men, to work on its prison farm ...

A yearslong federal case over forced agricultural labor at Louisiana's Angola prison raised questions about prison labor and its ties to slavery, but ended earlier this year with a judge's refusal to ...

NMAF copy 39088016107369 gift of Maria Goodwin. "Worse Than Slavery" is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the civil rights era - and beyond. Southern ...

The founding of Tufts has been a tale told far and wide. When a friend of Charles Tufts, one of the founders of Tufts, asked him what he intended to do with land including Walnut Hill, the iconic ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — The Ann Arbor grave site of John “Felix” White, who escaped slavery in Kentucky in 1844 and found refuge here, living into his 80s a free man, is now part of the National Underground ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN – The story of Casey Farm can’t be told without talking about slavery. Like other 18th-century farms in southern Rhode Island, its ties to slave labor run deep. On Sunday, Juneteenth, ...