Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture was a key figure in the Haitian Revolution, which ultimately led to the abolition of slavery and the establishment of Haiti as the...
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Gabriel Prosser
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GABRIEL’S INSURRECTION, a slave uprising in Virginia in 1800. The democratic ideals expressed in the slogan of the French Revolution (1789)—”liberty, equality, fraternity”—resonated in France’s...
The Abolition Movement
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As the enslavement of African-Americans became a preferred aspect of the United States’ society, people began questioning the morality of bondage. Throughout the 18th and...
The Free Soil Party
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The Free Soil Party was an American political party that only survived through two presidential elections, in 1848 and 1852. Essentially a single issue reform...
Paul Cuffee
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Paul Cuffee, a sea captain and an entrepreneur, was perhaps the wealthiest black American of his time. Cuffee was born on Cuttyhunk Island, off Southern...
The Compromise of 1850
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The Compromise of 1850 was a set of bills passed in Congress which tried to settle the issue of slavery, which was about to split...
The American Colonization Society
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The American Colonization Society was an organization formed in 1816 with the purpose of transporting free blacks from the United States to settle on the...
A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison
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Paul Jennings is the author of A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison (1865), a memoir about his service as an enslaved footman in the...
Presidents Who Owned Slaves
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John Adams: The second president did not approve of slavery and never owned slaves. He and his wife Abigail were offended when the federal government moved...
Free State of Jones reminds us that slavery didn’t end with the Civil War and its poisonous legacy is real
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I recently watched Free State of Jones starring Matthew McConaughey, and as a scholar of both the American Civil War and the broader subject of...