What was special about America was not that it had slavery ... view in non-Western societies at that time. Then how did slavery end? We know how it ended in the United States — at a cost ...

And the early history of America indicates that it probably did not." But by the episode's end, the transformation to a system of racial slavery is complete. On the eve of the American Revolution ...

English and Colonial law did not define racial slavery; the census calls him not a slave but a "servant." Later, Antonio changed his name to Anthony Johnson, married an African American servant ...

In some countries the ending of slavery did great damage to particular industries ... Four years later slavery was abolished in the southern states of America following the Southern defeat ...

The argument about slavery was one of the main reasons behind the American Civil War, which broke out in 1861. At that time, Northern States (known as the Union States) did not allow slavery and ...