On the assumption that slavery was a state rather than national institution, antislavery advocates at first anticipated that military defeat of the Confederacy would result in its abolition ...

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He publicly burned a copy of the Constitution, which he viewed as a pro-slavery document. His radicalism helped fragment the abolition movement, yet his consistent, unyielding approach to slavery ...

The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro-slave trade lobby had too many important and powerful figures in the establishment. The plantation owners, the ...

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 ...