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Feb 7, 2019 · In the case of an escaped enslaved man who came to be called "Whipped Peter," an 1863 photo of his savagely scarred back helped raise a national outcry against the cruelty of slavery. By the time ...
May 30, 2012 · Slavery in America. In 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, planting the seeds of a slavery system that evolved into a nightmare of abuse and cruelty that would ...
Oct 27, 2009 · An abolitionist, as the name implies, is a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century. More specifically, these individuals sought the immediate and full emancipation of all ...
Feb 4, 2021 · On March 13, Breonna Taylor, 26, a Black woman who had been asleep in bed, is killed by Louisville, Kentucky police during a botched no-knock raid. And on May 25, George Floyd, 46, dies after ...
Jun 1, 2010 · Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
Oct 27, 2009 · Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in or around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. Douglass himself was never sure of his exact birth date. His mother was an enslaved Black women and his ...
Oct 29, 2009 · Sojourner Truth, First Black Woman to Sue White Man–And Win. After the New York Anti-Slavery Law was passed, Dumont illegally sold Isabella’s five-year-old son Peter. With the help of the Van ...
