What happened in the rest of the world was that all of Western civilization eventually turned against slavery in the 19th century. This meant the end of slavery in European empires around the ...

If such a line as “Mason-Dixon” existed (actually, there were a series of lines drawn by “compromising” Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided ...

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 ...

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

The continuation of slavery within Africa in the 19th century after abolition is also poorly documented. Historical documents containing statistics are not always very reliable. For example ...

Rather than celebrating Union victory, Lincoln presented the war as a divine reckoning for the nation’s sin of slavery, declaring that “if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled ...

A Virginia judge ruled that embryos are not property, despite a court having previously ruled that embryos are "goods or ...

This project aims at examining the circulation and the implementation of a common post-slavery pattern as the key and masterpiece which has enabled the pervasiveness of the socio-racial inequalities ...

Voices of Resistance exposes how 19th century British postal services profited from and enabled transatlantic trafficking of ...