EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and s...

  Servitude and Slavery For the antecedents of Negro slavery in America one must go back to the system of indentured labor known as servitud...

Planting of Slavery in the American Colonies It is only for Virginia that we can state with definiteness the year in which Negro slaves were...

Spanish Exploration and Slavery When we come to Columbus himself, the accuracy of whose accounts has so recently been questioned, we find a ...

Blue, Gray, and Black Slavery at the Beginning of the Civil War John Brown's raid convinced the South that Northern harassment of slaver...

Growth of Abolitionists Extremism During the 1850s American racial attitudes grew more extreme. While slavery continued to flourish througho...

American Revolution Black Moderates And Black Militants  On the eve of the Revolution there was justification for assuming that slavery in t...

All Men Are Created Equal Slavery and the American Revolution "How is it," asked Samuel Johnson, "that we hear the loudest ye...