Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Michael Vorenberg, Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2001) Michael P. Zuckert, Completing the Constitution: The Thirteenth Amendment , 4 Const ...

After the Civil War, the U.S. abolished slavery nationwide. The Emancipation Proclamation freed millions of slaves. But the status of those former slaves and newly emancipated slaves post-war was ...

In 1864, Arkansas abolished slavery, the first state to do so in 60 years. By the close of the Civil War, there were 27 free and nine slave states, just enough to change America’s founding legal ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

The abolition of the African slave trade in 1850 and the Triple Alliance War against Paraguay (from 1864 to 1870) paved the way for emancipation. Nearly 16,000 enslaved people were freed by ...

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, ... The Civil War ended in 1865 with the defeat of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery through the 13th ...

General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to ...

The abolition of the African slave trade in 1850 and the Triple Alliance War against Paraguay (from 1864 to 1870) paved the way for emancipation. Nearly 16,000 enslaved people were freed by ...

Not long after the Civil War ended, the number of marriage-license applications in Harris County was so great that for a time the courthouse was unable to handle any other kind of business.

A scroll where Baptist ministers took an early stand against slavery has been rediscovered in Groton, Massachusetts. The ...