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 ...

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

In ”Last Seen,” historian Judith Giesberg explores how formerly enslaved people tried to reunite with their lost loved ones ...

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 ...

Although there was some hope immediately after the Revolution that the ideals of independence and equality would extend to the black American ... did not mean progress. It meant slavery.

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 ...