A: Slavery was intimately related to the major trends [and] developments that we associate with American history in the first half of the 19th century. For example, territorial expansion ...

What was special about America was not that it had slavery ... all of Western civilization eventually turned against slavery in the 19th century. This meant the end of slavery in European empires ...

The state Capitol stairs serve as a stark example of complicated work performed by a complicated man, who lived a remarkable ...

Imagine flying, impossibly, over the Earth in the 17th century—during the time described in American history ... colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th century, almost four ...

Most of us know that before the American Civil War there were so ... Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided below it and free black people above ...