Searching for a Fortress Built by People Who Escaped Slavery

Matthew Hutson on Maroons—people who’d escaped slavery to live in the wilderness—and on the search to find the ruins of one of their fortresses in Georgia.

Slavery during the Civil War - Encyclopedia Virginia

Fort Monroe's Lasting Place in History, History

Old Fortress, Corfu - Wikipedia

W. E. B. Du Bois on the Freedmen's Bureau - The Atlantic

Slave-patrols and the Second Amendment: How Fears of Abolition

Freedom's Fortress

Soldier of Fortune: John Smith before Jamestown

Contraband of war hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

Fort Monroe's Lasting Place in History, History

Robert Smalls: The Slave Who Sailed To Freedom

Hidden History: 'Ellis Island' for African-Americans

Freedom's Fortress (U.S. National Park Service)

New York, New York - The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Matthew Pinsker Slave Stampedes on the Southern Borderlands

Slavery in ancient Rome - Wikipedia