2003-05-11 04:00:00 PDT Germantown, Ky.-- Even now, slowed by a stroke and 70 years past his boyhood of toiling in the fields as a tenant farmer, Isaac Lang Jr. can still recall the terrible secrets ...

Bernard M. Lynch was an infamous slave trader who operated in several locations before the Civil War. While many slaves were later sold to rural Missouri, St. Louis played a critical role in the slave ...

When farmer Ray Evers read about the new Underground Railroad Freedom Center opening in Cincinnati, he called the curators to say he had something they might want. Inside a barn on his Mason County, ...

There is no telling what you will find searching through old Carroll County records. Recently the name Bernard M. Campbell popped up in books dating to the 1850s and early 1860s. Following Campbell’s ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A February 1963 photograph of one of the former cells of Bernard Lynch’s slave pen in a basement near what is now Broadway and ...

ST. LOUIS — Two St. Louis-area lawmakers are asking the St. Louis Cardinals to put up a marker at a former slave pen site near Busch Stadium. On Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Representatives ...

Lafayette Square, where hundreds of protesters were cleared by force Monday night before President Trump’s walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church, was once bordered by “slave pens.” Hundreds of enslaved ...

This illustration depicts a New Orleans slave auction in 1831. (UPI FILE) When the United States banned the transatlantic slave trade in 1808, the domestic trade boomed, and no place was a bigger hub ...