They were outvoted, 4-3. Simard was doing research for his dissertation when he began compiling evidence that northern judges ...

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 ...

An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced ...

Horace King, a former slave, was a renowned bridge builder and architect in the American South during the 19th century. King ...

President Jackson, a champion of slavery and states’ rights, ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling, and instead endorsed the Trail of Tears, a forced march to Oklahoma during which thousands of ...

Outlawing the slave trade and converting freed slaves ... Portuguese missionaries in Angola and Mozambique in the late 19th century and 20th century were renowned and feared for their willingness ...

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 ...

They were outvoted, 4-3. Simard was doing research for his dissertation when he began compiling evidence that northern judges had cited slave cases in the 19th century. He discovered that these ...

Horace King, a former slave, was a renowned bridge builder and architect in the American South during the 19th century. King was known for his craftsmanship, particularly his intricate spiral ...