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 ...
That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...
billed as “Uncle Sammy’s Reminiscences of Slavery Days.” The article included a drawing of his tidy two-story cottage, and of Anderson himself. It described him, at age 88, as “resembling ...
The United Nations will commemorate the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on 25 March under the theme “Ending Slavery’s Legacy of ...
in hopes of finding better ways to eradicate modern-day enslavement. Early thinking on owning slaves Historically, many revered figures have endorsed slavery. “For that some should rule and ...