1800s-1850s: Resisting slavery. ... Slave uprisings in the south intensified from the early 1800s until the Civil War, as did the abolitionist movement and efforts of the Underground Railroad.

In addition to bridges, former slave Horace King built other structures, including a gristmill for City Mills, a company established in Columbus, Georgia, in 1828. Freed before the Civil War, King ...

"The dominance of slavery in the American South extended way beyond enslavers and enslaved people," said Tera ... Newspaper ads for enslaved runaways made their lives harsher in 1800s. Advertisement.

-- The local trade in slaves appears to be anything but flourishing, if we judge from some of the latest authentic reports. We find a healthy negro, thirty-six years of age, going off at Salisbury ...

The lesser-known story of 100K courageous runaway slaves who fled the South via the ‘Blue Highway’ By . Caroline Howe. Published May 17, 2025, 12:07 p.m. ET.

Historians have long known that in the early American South, Indian tribes often conducted slaving raids on other tribes, on behalf of Europeans and sometimes accompanied by them. Alan Gallay is ...

It's impossible to imagine what the day-to-day life of a slave must have been like in the 1800s. Fortunately, we don't have to. Thanks to federal writers who sought out and interviewed former sla… ...

American slavery wasn’t the “peculiar institution” of the South alone; it was a transcontinental regime. And a diverse range of people was caught in its cruel embrace.

History: Race in the U.S.A., a timeline created by the American Anthropological Association, looks at milestones in thinking and actions about race in government, science and society.

On display now at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is a special exhibit centered on a rare Bible from the 1800s that was used by British missionaries to convert and educate slaves ...

Arming Slaves at the South. Share full article. Feb. 12, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 12, 1865, Page 4 Buy Reprints.