In the early decades of the Republic, the United States Congress was a deeply flawed institution. In the famous compromise known as the three-fifths rule, the Constitution had allowed slave states ...

The election of 1860 was one of the most fractured in American history ... within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The monstrous institution of slavery was ...

McGill’s mission: to sleep in every former slave dwelling still standing in the United States. Tonight’s stay ... to save slave dwellings and the history they hold before it’s too late.

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

On January 1, 1808 the first great goal of the anti-slavery effort in the United States was achieved: Congress banned international slave trade. Despite the passing of the bill the lucrative trade ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Journal of Negro History Vol. 8, No. 3, Jul., 1923 Negro Servitude in the United States: Se... Negro Servitude in the United States: Servitude ...

Ashley became the driving force for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, legally ending slavery forever. [Jerry Klinger] ...

This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant ...

Slavery in the United States depended on segregationist ideology and white ... back to the sexual violation of enslaved women and girls that began early in our history as a nation, and the ...

The hatred of America and of capitalism is what animates the entire slave narrative in your ... The left is morally inferior to the United States and its founders and the Judeo-Christian system.

Today, this question bitterly divides the Jewish people. But it is not the first time it has done so. Passover begins this ...

On January 1, 1808 the first great goal of the anti-slavery effort in the United States was achieved: Congress banned international slave trade. Despite the passing of the bill the lucrative trade ...