The Whigs believed in a "loose construction" of the Constitution which included supporting big government with a national bank and the congressional regulation of the expansion of slavery.

Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this ...

Here's a timeline of events ... accomplished by enslaved African Americans. 1829: The church opened with white congregants in the sanctuary. It's believed slaves attended services and sat in ...

July: In New York City, opposition to the nation's first military draft triggers a riot, the largest in American history, as poor white Northerners protest being forced to fight to end slavery.

There had to be a creole population in place, i.e. a population of blacks born not in Africa but in America. Historically, and for various complicated reasons, slaves in the United States began ...

All of these approaches misrepresent the liaison between the Founding Father and his female possession because they ignore the sexual exploitation and family losses inscribed across the Hemings family ...

More Blacks have come to America voluntarily since the 1980s, whether it be from West Africa, from the Caribbean, than ever came in the slave trade. And what does she say there? She says they ...

The hatred of America and of capitalism is what animates the entire slave narrative in your kid's college. Yes, Corey glossed over that the US ended slavery for the rest of the world. While ...

They failed to foresee how developments like the cotton gin and American expansion into the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi Delta would vastly increase slavery’s profitability, creating a whole ...