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1 day ago · According to the 1860 United States Census, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million. American abolitionism was based in the North, although there were anti-abolitionist riots in several cities.
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- Abolitionism (Disambiguation)
3 days ago · In states that passed gradual abolition laws, such as New York and New Jersey, children born to slave mothers had to serve an extended period of indenture into young adulthood. In other cases, some slaves were reclassified as indentured servants, effectively preserving the institution of slavery through another name.
3 days ago · The Northern states of the United States abolished slavery, partly in response to the United States Declaration of Independence, between 1777 and 1804. Britain ended slavery in its empire in the 1830s. However, the plantation economies of the southern United States, based on cotton, and those in Brazil and Cuba, based on sugar, expanded and ...
4 days ago · Harriet Jacobs (born 1813, Edenton, North Carolina, U.S.—died March 7, 1897, Washington, D.C.) was an American abolitionist and autobiographer who crafted her own experiences into Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), an eloquent and uncompromising slave narrative. Jacobs, who was born into enslavement, was taught ...
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2 days ago · Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. African Americans celebrating the anniversary of the end of slavery in Washington, D.C., in April 1866. In 1863, during the American Civil War, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ...
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5 days ago · United States, 1824-54." Slavery and Abolition 25, no. 3 (2004): 59-75. Epps, Archie C. “The Christian Doctrine of Slavery: A Theological Analysis.” The Journal of Negro History 46, no. 4 (1961): 243–49. Perkins, Howard C. "The Defense of Slavery in the Northern Press on the Eve of the Civil War."
2 days ago · Rosa Boido was one of the first female doctors in Arizona. She was arrested for performing an abortion in 1918. A women’s rights desert. In 1864, Arizona – which was an official territory of ...
