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Whites who did not own slaves were primarily yeoman farmers. Practically speaking, the institution of slavery did not help these people. And yet most non-slaveholding white Southerners identified ...

The Washington Post has chronicled 1,715 former members of Congress who were slave owners at some point in their lives Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Following Nat Turner's 1831 rebellion, the Virginia General Assembly debated the question of what to do about slavery—abolish the institution and remove blacks, abolish the institution and allow ...

It evolved over several decades, one law at a time, to become the institution with which we are now most familiar. "Slavery and freedom existed side by side in this country," says Cornell ...

“For us, the benefits of slavery have not ended,” the Close family wrote in a Newsweek op-ed last year. “They are a very real part of our day-to-day lives. The institution of slavery allows ...

Black women in colonial Boston fought for justice and shaped the city’s history. Their resistance, resilience, and legacy ...

What ‘Freedom Conservatism’ Is Missing Discussions of racial problems almost invariably bring out the cliché of “a legacy of slavery.” But anyone who is being serious, as distinguished ...

Maddox had clicked on that story, curious about the link between slavery and a prominent Jesuit institution. She and her family were among a 4% minority of American Catholics who are Black ...

Affiliation with W&M recognizes the College's concern as an Anglican institution for the religious education of blacks. 1796 Professor St. George Tucker publishes his quixotic "Dissertation on [the ...

Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this ...

“The problem, How to maintain the institution of chattel slavery, ceased to be at Appomattox; the problem, How to maintain the social, industrial, and civic inferiority of the descendants of ...