enslaved
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In early hip-hop and dance music, Mr. Gibbs heard echoes of the shuffling feet and handclaps of a ring shout, the communal spiritual ritual in which enslaved Africans used their own bodies as instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
History textbooks often include the story of the Underground Railroad, an organized network of secret routes, places and people that guided enslaved populations from the South to abolitionist Northern states.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
In the South, formerly enslaved Black Southerners assembled for the first time ever, exercising rights they could not have while enslaved.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
When the Revolution began in 1775, 450,000 enslaved people lived in British North America, the vast majority in the Southern colonies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
In January of the new year 1863, the fighting further intensified as Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people in the Confederate states.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
