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Slavery officially ended in America with the passage of the 13th Amendment following the Civil War's end in 1865. Slavery in America was the legal institution of enslaving human beings,...
- Started in 1619
The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks...
- 5 Myths About Slavery
4. Myth #4: The Union went to war to end slavery. On the...
- 13th Amendment
Slavery in America Black Codes The year after the...
- 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in...
- 40 Years a Slave
An uneducated man who grew tobacco and herded cattle, Foster...
- Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an escaped enslaved woman who became a...
- Dred Scott Case
Who Was Dred Scott? Dred Scott was born into slavery around...
- Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African...
- One of The Last Slave Ship Survivors Describes His Ordeal in a 1930S Interview
Zora Neale Hurston's searing book about Cudjo Lewis, brought...
- Reconstruction
Reconstruction (1865-1877), the turbulent era following the...
- Started in 1619
The growing U.S. abolition movement sought to gradually or immediately end slavery in the United States. It was active from the late colonial era until the American Civil War, which culminated in the abolition of American slavery through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution .
The Civil War, fought over slavery, ended in April 1865, but the end of slavery was more like a process, rather than an event that occurred on a particular day. There were some cases of people...
On December 18, the 13th Amendment was officially adopted into the Constitution—246 years after the first shipload of captive Africans landed at Jamestown, Virginia, and were bought as enslaved...
The transition from slavery to freedom included many roadblocks as the country confronted the question of how resources could reach newly freed African Americans. The end of the Civil War in 1865 ushered in major changes in the U.S., including the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime.
The Juneteenth holiday honors the effective end of slavery in the United States. Crowds of people, recently freed from enslavement, carry copies of the Emancipation Proclamation in this 1864...
In 1807 Pres. Thomas Jefferson signed legislation that officially ended the African trade of enslaved peoples beginning in January 1808. However, this act did not presage the end of slavery.
