Queen Elizabeth makes her first visit to African country Ghana in 1961. The controversial visit helped strengthen relations ...

Welcomed home by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Poet Laureate John Masefield’s twelve-line ode, “On the Return of Our Gracious Sovereign from Africa,”* Queen Elizabeth II returned to ...

Elizabeth Freeman was probably born in 1742, to enslaved African parents in Claverack, New York. At the age of six months she was purchased, along with her sister, by John Ashley of Sheffield ...