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In 1770, on a farm in what is now Caroline County, a man was born who played a key part in Lewis and Clark’s famed 1803–06 Expedition to the Pacific.

“The Band’s Visit” follows the story of an ... a federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. After the show, the audience was invited to join a panel ...

He grew up speaking a language of the enslaved on the shores of Pin Point, Georgia. He would become the most powerful Black man in America, using the astonishing power vested in a Supreme Court ...

August 8 marks the Day of Emancipation in Tennessee when Andrew Johnson freed the enslaved Black people from ... Evelyn Jack and The Summer Soul Witty Band. Then, on Saturday, they planned to ...

The band formerly known as Lady Antebellum made ... when African-Americans were enslaved by aristocrats.

and can be seen to glorify a time when Black people were enslaved by white people. The country band is made up of trio Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood. The group’s first album ...

A band of volunteers, made up of family and ... lived in town from 1851 to 1858 and led about 70 enslaved people from the United States to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Formerly known as Harvest Home, the festival began on plantations across Barbados during the trans-Atlantic slave trade and was one of few times of the year when enslaved people could freely ...

We are a Peoria-based band with quite a few connections to Bloomington ... is based on the banjo brought to the U.S. by enslaved Africans... It was first produced in Chicago at the turn of the ...

Steelpan found its early beginnings when enslaved Africans ... and my first times hearing the full band sound." "I'd like people to feel the magic in the steelpan," Charles said.

They also brought with them enslaved Black people ... the year a suit filed by the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band was dismissed in federal district court. The family legacy now reposes ...