It now contains over 4,500 ads placed in newspapers by formerly enslaved people who hoped to find family members separated by slavery. The earliest ads date from the 1830s and stretch into the 1920s.

In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, tensions in the country mounted over the issue of slavery. By 1830, there were more than 2 million slaves in the United States, worth over a ...

9, No. 1, Jan., 1924 Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the Unite... Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the United States in 1830 This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...

A new study of a forgotten archive from the 1830s reveals that many of these houses were once the homes of British slave owners. Researchers at University College London have used these documents ...

“We had Catholic emancipation at pretty much exactly the same time that we got rid of slavery in the 1830s. We don't go on about that because it's part of history, it's a question that's settled ...

Taylor Swift has divided music lovers with a lyric on her new album that says she would like to have lived in the 1830s. Swift, 34, released her new album, The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD), on ...

DAVID OLUSOGA:'These are Britain's forgotten slave owners.' DAVID OLUSOGA:'By the early 1830s, the slave owners were losing the battle to defend slavery. Inspired by their religious faith and ...