Slave Dwelling Project News Today

Author Andre Dubus III delivers the Oxford Conference for the Book keynote address in the Student Union Ballroom on April

2024 Timrod Lecture Series: Sleeping with the Ancestors

25th annual Timrod Author Series: Stacy Willingham

“Payne-ful Business, Charleston’s Journey to Truth” and “Sleeping with the Ancestors” are both the products of books that offer unprecedented insight to the enslaved.

Pernessa Seele, Lincolnvilles decorated native daughter, gets support from National Park Service for a new park at the corner of Lincoln Road and Pickens St.

WILLIAMSBURG — Jamestown Settlement’s Director’s Series returns for its 2024 season on Jan. 17, featuring Virginia Secretary of Education Aimee R. Guidera.

Two services and a parade are scheduled today and Monday to commemorate the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that lifted enslaved people in the slave-holding states from bondage.

During the first episode of a new video series made in town called "Charleston Sessions," the singer-songwriter from Spartanburg was tasked with something heavy and soul-searching: to tour and learn

Natchez, Miss., is beginning to highlight the history of its enslaved people-including at a Black-owned bed and breakfast in former slave quarters.

While the constitution prohibits slavery in the state, it also includes one exception.