To place slave emancipation on a secure constitutional footing, Congress proposed on January 31, 1865, to abolish slavery ... the comprehensive sweep of the abolition amendment was balanced ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865.

General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...

President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, D.C., freeing more than 3,000 people. It was a joyful day that came after decades of effort by abolitionists and amid the Civil War. In 2025, ...

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 ...

The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro-slave trade lobby had too many important and powerful figures in the establishment. The plantation owners, the ...

whaling had already eroded slavery’s economic and social foundations decades earlier. Yet, whaling’s role in funding abolition and providing economic opportunities for free Black Americans is ...

Scotland's History Land and Votes Slavery is abolished across the Empire The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

First -- Slavery and involuntary servitude, except for crime, is hereby abolished and prohibited in the State forever. Second -- Courts of competent jurisdiction may apprentice minors of African ...