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 ...

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 standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of Southern whites did not even own slaves; of those who ...

12 Douglass knew that the American people and their state ... 21 Although the Constitution tolerated slavery where it already existed, it did not protect it from abolition. In fact, it enshrined ...