Martha S. Jones honored Jonathan Ocko's legacy with a lecture on legal history, exploring her family's defiance of racial ...

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 ...

American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery By Richard Kreitner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $32 The ...

(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 ...

While industrialization eventually made enslaved labor less profitable by the mid- and late-1800s, whaling had already eroded slavery’s economic and social foundations decades earlier. Yet, whaling’s ...

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 ...

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 ...