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 ...

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

All indications point to the fact that the earliest phase of church construction in Norway was not just a matter of communal ...

joined by an extraordinary flow not of European colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th century, almost four times as many Africans as Europeans came to the Americas. Looking down ...

At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on ... That notice regarding the buying and selling of slaves, and the search for runaway slaves, was one of many that ...

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 ...

leading to a huge demand for shellfish throughout the 19th century. Still, it was Bernoon’s initiative that helped Downing’s business to be successful; it was the former slave’s vision that ...

The continuation of slavery within Africa in the 19th century after abolition is also poorly documented. ARAB SLAVE TRADE Historical documents containing statistics are not always very reliable.