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 ...
The following year, in collaboration with the Society of Friends, PAS successfully petitioned the Pennsylvania legislature to amend the gradual abolition ... effects of slavery, effects which ...
Like most men in Free States he is opposed to Slavery, regrets its existence, and ardently desires to abolish it. But, unlike other Abolitionists, he seeks to accomplish this end by persuasion ...
Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 ... of the ...
Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...
At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a ...
More than 100 descendants of people who were enslaved during the colonial era have applied to change their names since a ...