On this day in 1841, a mutiny occurred onboard the ship Creole carrying 135 enslaved people from Richmond to New Orleans.. Madison Washington and others killed John R. Hewell, one of the slave trader…

Following his conference with Tecumseh, Indiana Territorial Governor Harrison decided to attack the Native confederacy's stronghold at Tippecanoe, while Tecumseh and his forces were away. The Shawnee…

At the time, Florida was controlled by the Spanish and the rest of the south by the British. Six years earlier, ten enslaved people and a very young child made a daring escape and showed up to the Sp…