In January 1800, free black people in Philadelphia ... the possibility of being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. The practice of kidnapping was frighteningly widespread.

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They may have been poor, but they were not slaves, and they were not black. They gained a sense of power simply by being white. In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton ...

For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story is incomplete. What is far less known is that the majority of enslaved ...

Census showing residents of Yonkers By Dennis Richmond Jr. A conversation about slavery is never easy. It is an open wound, a ...

When you think about slavery in the United States you probably think about it happening in the deep south in the 1800’s and causing the Civil War. However, slavery was ...

I made a presentation on the cause of our Civil War. Many tell me that the cause was slavery. Slavery was the major issue, but the cause of the war was the failure for the two sides to ...

This distinctive type of ceramic face vessel first appeared in the American South in the mid-1800s. Jugs such as these are attributed to a small number of black slaves working as potters in the ...

Settlers from the South wanted to move to the West and take their enslaved workers with them Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery As new states were created, the issue of slavery ...