In recent years, seven states have outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude in their constitutions, including Colorado in 2018, Utah and Nebraska in 2020, and Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and ...

As late as April 1865, one year after the U.S. Senate passed the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery (when ratified), records noted that Lumpkin’s Jail in Richmond, Virginia, “shipped fifty ...

Dec. 6, 1865: National ratification of 13th Amendment, which ends slavery in the United States. The amendment is ratified by 27 of the existing 36 states. Kentucky is not one of them.

Slavery did not become constitutionally legal in Texas until 1836. At that time, the Mexican army was defeated in the Texas Revolution by the Army of the Republic of Texas at San Jacinto. In 1834 ...

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: How did Jews react to American slavery? It's complicated, says North Jersey author "Fear No Pharoah" book cover© Farrar, Straus and Giroux ...

Only in Washington, D.C., did tourists gaze upon the enormous "slave mart" across the street from the House of Representatives and on enslaved laborers constructing the Capitol dome.