April is often associated with spring and renewal, but it also powerfully reminds us of the struggles and triumphs within ...

Ashley became the driving force for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, legally ending slavery forever. [Jerry Klinger] ...

On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

The abolition or slavery, by the constitutional ratification of the States, will strengthen the Union cause in North Carolina and Virginia, the present battle-ground of the rebels. The gambler ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Starting around 1650, whaling expanded along the Northeast coast of the British ...

As a younger man, Jefferson argued for the abolition of slavery and in 1778 drafted a ... In Lincoln’s last public address in 1865, four days before he was assassinated, he recommended extending ...

Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 1807 which abolished the transatlantic slave trade. It did not ...

The subject of the proposed amendment will take form in an expression of general felicitation upon the constitutional steps taken by the United States Congress, toward the abolition of slavery.