On the assumption that slavery was a state rather than national institution, antislavery advocates at first anticipated that military defeat of the Confederacy would result in its abolition ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on Exodus and its connection to slavery and liberation.

(Second Middle Passage, British abolition of slavery in 1838, horrible practice of slavery in general.) Ask students to identify the effect(s) of Nat Turner’s Rebellion. (Southern plantation ...

Six of these original members were among the largely Quaker group of eighteen Philadelphians that reorganized in February 1784 as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery ...

Puerto Rico commemorates Emancipation Day, a historical milestone that marks the abolition of slavery on the island.

In the story of world slavery, Americans loom much larger in the history of abolition than in the history of enslavement . . . Slavery and its close cousin, serfdom, were the lot of a vast ...

On 1 August 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Act, which made the purchase or owning of slaves illegal in parts of the British Empire, took effect in Britain. This did not mean that all of the ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

Historically, the cultivation of cotton was inseparable from the exploitation of enslaved Africans, a system that began in ...

Belfast does, however, a proud legacy of people who fought for the abolition of slavery. Many people from all walks of life campaigned against slave-dealers, especially when it wasn’t very ...

In 2007, to commemorate the British bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, we examined how the collections we care for are connected with the transatlantic slave trade. We can ...