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Oct 27, 2009 · The Dred Scott case, also known as Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The case persisted through several courts and ultimately ...
Jan 15, 2013 · In what became the largest slave uprising in the history of the British West Indies, the slaves burned and looted plantations for several days, eventually causing $1.1 million in property damage ...
Feb 24, 2017 · Historians and experts discuss the importance of the family unit in the lives of enslaved people.
Jun 19, 2015 · In Texas, slavery had continued as the state experienced no large-scale fighting or significant presence of Union troops. Many enslavers from outside the Lone Star State had moved there, as they ...
May 3, 2018 · Beyond the original promise made by General William Tecumseh Sherman just after the Civil War to provide newly freed Black people with “40 acres and a mule”—a promise quickly recanted ...
Oct 29, 2009 · Booker Taliaferro Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in a hut in Franklin County, Virginia. His mother was a cook for the plantation’s owner. His father, a white man, was unknown to Washington ...
Life Aboard a Slave Ship. (4m 2s) tv-pg. From approximately 1525 to 1866, 12.5 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Middle Passage to serve as slaves in the New World. Life aboard ...
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