Throughout the Americas, acts of resistance undermined slaveholders’ power, destabilized systems of slavery and hastened ...
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Slavery in an Age of Emancipation
Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...
Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...
Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...
Some implications of the abolition of the slave trade / Stanley L. Engerman -- The ideology of antislavery / Howard Temperley -- Religion and British slave emancipation / Roger T. Anstey -- The public ...
23 August is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, a date that marks the beginning of the end for the transatlantic slave trade. Unfortunately, this event did ...
President Herminie Leads First Official Commemoration of Abolition of Slavery Day, National Library of Seychelles, 1 February 2026 ...
ON OCT. 5, 1862, Rev. Andrew T. Foss of Manchester lost his beloved 26-year-old son, Pvt. Eugene Kincaid Foss. The younger Foss, a musician in the Fourth Regiment N.H. Volunteer Infantry band, had ...
I enjoyed the recent article “Juneteenth is a celebration of history many Americans tried to hide.” I find it disheartening that there are still many aspects of our history intentionally hidden or ...
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When Canada abolished slavery 30 years before the United States
Most people assume slavery ended across North America at roughly the same time, but the timeline tells a very different story ...
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