Most of us know that before the American Civil War there were so ... Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided below it and free black people above ...

19th Century American Poets: Whittier, Garrison & the Anti-Slavery Movement Posted: March 16, 2025 | Last updated: March 16, 2025 The film depicts the life of John Greenleaf Whittier, a Quaker ...

Slavery spread from the seaboard to some ... spurring the industrial revolution which transformed America in the 19th century. Progress has different meanings for different people.

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

The state Capitol stairs serve as a stark example of complicated work performed by a complicated man, who lived a remarkable life.

At the beginning of the 19th ... freed slaves, became important centres of Christian practice in West Africa by the 1830's. The freed slaves who arrived in these colonies, who came from America ...