Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

What was special about America was not that it had slavery ... all of Western civilization eventually turned against slavery in the 19th century. This meant the end of slavery in European empires ...

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.

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

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 ...

In the 19th century, photographic portraits largely ... In 1855 he oversaw the creation of a “Mammoth Pictorial Tour” of American slavery: a 600-yard-long panoramic canvas featuring painted ...

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 ...

Imagine flying, impossibly, over the Earth in the 17th century—during the time described in American history ... colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th century, almost four ...