Now, in his latest formidable synthesis, The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888, Blackburn recounts the long undoing of the “second slavery” in the United States ...

In his original draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson offered a powerful final grievance against King George III. The King, Jefferson wrote, “has waged cruel war against ...

France abolished slavery in 1848, after a 70-year period of abolishing and re-instating slavery in its colonies. Its former colony, Haiti, ...

Lincoln hated slavery but he was not an abolitionist, according to Civil War historian and author James Oakes in his latest book, “The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the ...

Yale has also launched the Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal to help researchers and students “find primary sources related to slavery, abolition and resistance.” Yale University turned down ...

Slavery was abolished in Suriname and the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean on July 1, 1863, but most of the enslaved laborers were forced to continue working on plantations for 10 more years.

Seymour Drescher, Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery, Cambridge University Press (2009). Seymour Drescher and Stanley Engerman, eds., A Historical Guide to World Slavery, Oxford ...

When we think about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, we often center the Black American narrative (i.e. – Black American Exceptionalism). The United States is not in and of itself exceptional, but Black ...

Vermont abolished slavery in 1777, giving Black men the vote. In 1781, two Massachusetts slaves, Elizabeth Freeman and Quok Walker, sued their masters for freedom.

And the abolition of slavery, even though it was replaced with other structures of racial domination, had a somewhat destabilizing effect on the security that Jews had found up to that point.

Slavery was absolutely abolished. We shall continue our study of the Constitution in the next article about Amendment XIV, ratified by the States in 1868.

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