From behind the scissors in St. Paul, Moses Dickson helped African Americans escape slavery via the Underground Railroad and nearly led a well-organized insurrection.

I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who ...

Long before the first shots were fired in the Civil War, beginning early in the 19th century, Americans had been fighting a protracted war of words over slavery. On one side, Southern planters and ...