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Monument to the Women of the Confederacy

Activists Urge Mayor Curry To Remove Last Major Confederate Monument In Jacksonville

Brendan Rivers

As the large Robert E. Lee statue was taken down in Richmond, Va., this week, local advocates are calling on Mayor Lenny Curry to keep his word and get…

A restored tabby slave cabin at the Kingsley Plantation.

First Coast

$10K Grant Will Help Teach Timucuan Preserve Visitors About Enslaved People

Brendan Rivers

The Timucuan Parks Foundation has been awarded a $10,000 grant for programming that highlights the historic and continued role slavery plays in the…

First Coast

First Coast History: Amelia Island, St. Augustine Were Slave Trade Ports Of Entry

Kevin Meerschaert

For 350 years, ships brought 12 million Africans to be enslaved in what is now the United States. Millions of others didn’t survive the trip.Saint…

Community

Durkeeville Historical Society Celebrates Juneteenth

Cyd Hoskinson

Slavery in the U.S. came to an end 148 years ago today, when Union soldiers sailed into Galveston, Texas with the news that President Abraham Lincoln had…

Education

Markers of Florida's Dark Past: The Middle Passage Project

Melissa Ross

They were the notorious slave ships ferrying Africans from their homeland into bondage on U.S. shores.The Middle Passage, or the route the slave ships…