While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...
Catch phrases about slavery ... century, but it was not even a serious minority view in non-Western societies at that time. Then how did slavery end? We know how it ended in the United States ...
A: Slavery was ... Americans in the 19th century thought of or spoke of their country as in Jefferson phrase -- an "empire of liberty." And the history of the United States was conceived of ...
Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that ...
The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...
"Trace/s: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn" at the Center for Brooklyn History grapples with the ...
Gardner, of Alna, will discuss her upcoming book, 'The Divided North: Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery.' ...
Percival Everett was born in the deep South of the United States ... to slavery, which was the basis of my country's economic prosperity. Slave owners were compensated, but it has taken a century ...
Including Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Southern United States ... of a common post-slavery pattern as the key and masterpiece which has enabled the pervasiveness of the socio-racial ...
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...
Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery,” which traces two Maine families, one Black and one white, as they navigate the turbulent 19th century.