While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

Whether born slave or free, African Americans in the North ... in the most important issue of their day. Maria Stewart was America's first female African American political writer.

For the latest local news and features on Irish America, visit our homepage here ... sold over 500,000 Irish Catholics into slavery throughout the 1600s. Irish men, women and children were ...

Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies ... 1780: Pennsylvania declares that all black children born slaves will be freed at age 28.