On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

To place slave emancipation on a secure constitutional footing, Congress proposed on January 31, 1865, to abolish slavery ... the comprehensive sweep of the abolition amendment was balanced ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

“Slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot.” If so, slavery ended not with the 13th Amendment of 1865 but with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Douglass opposed radical ...

On 19 June 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, received momentous news: slavery had been abolished. They were free. The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining the words ...

Indeed, although slavery was legally abolished in December 1865 with ratification of the 13th Amendment, it continued in one form or another past that date, including in states that never seceded ...

Read More: The Tormented Rise of Abolition in 1830 ... the border between slavery and freedom. Between 1829, when he purchased the property, and 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified ...

The Union survived, however, and with the end of the war in 1865 ... is a center of the domestic slave trade; many lawmakers were slaveholders. Slavery is not abolished in Washington, D.C ...

President John Quincy Adams envisioned the U.S. as becoming a leader amongst the new nations which emerged in the Americas during the early nineteenth century, but because the new nations in Latin ...

Slavery & Abolition 14 (April):87–113 ... British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830–1865. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Hall, Douglas, 1953. The Apprenticeship Period in ...

First -- Slavery and involuntary servitude, except for crime, is hereby abolished and prohibited in the State forever. Second -- Courts of competent jurisdiction may apprentice minors of African ...