Slavery and abolition of slavery

Elizabeth Heyrick fought fiercely for the rights of oppressed people.

En 1782, en una ciudad de los Andes del Virreinato del Perú, un español pobre inicia un juicio contra un comerciante del lugar para obligarlo a venderle su esclava mulata.

"e;A carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3 1/2 centuries during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World.

Measuring the success of emancipation in the British West Indies became crucial in the struggle against slavery in antebellum America.

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.

Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States.

What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong?

Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States.

The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists.

Looking closely at both the slaves' and masters' worlds in low, middle, and up-country South Carolina, Larry E.

The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion.

The end of slavery left millions of former slaves destitute in a South as unsettled as they were.

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent.

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent.

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past?

As a young man, John B.

Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration.

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past?

The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval EuropeIn 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave.

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When Pueblo Indians say, "e;The first white man our people saw was a black man,"e; they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539.

This book provides new perspectives into a subject that historians have largely overlooked.

Since 1776, the Founding generation has been portrayed as creators of a new world where liberty and freedom were the inherent birthright of all peoples.

The dramatic story of a pivotal figure in the Haitian Revolution, who shook the Atlantic world to its core Born to an enslaved mother in Grenada, Henry Christophe first fought to overthrow the British in North America, before joining the Black freedom fighters of Saint-Domingue in their quest to gain independence from France.