(Like many European tourists, he was fascinated by the institution of slavery and recorded in his journal a number of observations about George Washington's slaves, which have proven invaluable to ...

February has been designated as Black History Month. The person that I remember most learning about, probably because we were a rural school, was George Washington Carver.

but the fate of the more than 800,000 African Americans who remained in slavery had been set when the Constitutional Convention presided over by George Washington ratified a Constitution which ...

George Washington Carver was born into slavery during the Civil War. He overcame countless obstacles in both getting his education and reaching professional advancement. He worked to help poor ...

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural ... He also championed crop rotation and agricultural education. Born into slavery in the early 1860s, Carver’s exact date of birth is ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... ardently hoped that “Legislative authority” would abolish slavery. Photograph by Michael Freeman/Corbis/Cordon Press But ...

Of the 31 people identified in the painting “General George Washington Resigning ... into Congress’s relationship with slavery, The Washington Post analyzed more than 400 artworks in the ...