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Slavery in America

Slavery in the Early United States In the 17th and 18th centuries, enslaved Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia south to Georgia. After the American Revolution, many colonists—particularly in the North, where slavery was relatively unimportant to the […]

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13th Amendment

Founding Fathers and Slavery  Despite the long history of slavery in the British colonies in North America, and the continued existence of slavery in America until 1865, the amendment was the first explicit mention of the institution of slavery in the U.S. Constitution. While America’s founding fathers enshrined the importance of liberty and equality in […]

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Emancipation Proclamation

Abe Lincoln’s Developing Views on Slavery Sectional tensions over slavery in the United States had been building for decades by 1854, when Congress’ passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act opened territory that had previously been closed to slavery according to the Missouri Compromise. Opposition to the act led to the formation of the Republican Party in […]

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Does an Exception Clause in the 13th Amendment Still Permit Slavery?

The amendment, which officially abolished slavery in the United States in 1865, includes a loophole regarding involuntary servitude.

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Why Ralph Ellison Never Published a Second Novel During His Lifetime

After the colossal success of “Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison struggled for 40 years to finish his second novel, “Juneteenth.”

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Former enslaved people, Juneteenth

What Is Juneteenth?

Juneteenth commemorates an effective end of slavery in the United States.

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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

5 Things You May Not Know About Abraham Lincoln, Slavery and Emancipation

The 16th U.S. president was firm in believing slavery was morally wrong, but his views on racial equality were sometimes more complicated.

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