1865. The week just closed has been the most eventful one in the history of the State, and its burden of importance is summed up in the fact expressed in the simple words, slavery is abolished.

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

On 19 June 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, received momentous news: slavery had been abolished. They were free. The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining the words ...

Indeed, although slavery was legally abolished in December 1865 with ratification of the 13th Amendment, it continued in one form or another past that date, including in states that never seceded ...

The Union survived, however, and with the end of the war in 1865 ... is a center of the domestic slave trade; many lawmakers were slaveholders. Slavery is not abolished in Washington, D.C ...

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 ...

Read More: The Tormented Rise of Abolition in 1830 ... the border between slavery and freedom. Between 1829, when he purchased the property, and 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified ...

(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 ...