The 1837 Compensation Act led to 20 million pounds, 40% of the national budget at the time, being paid to plantation owners ...

Brown later received £24,144, the equivalent of $3.7 million today, under the Slave Compensation Act of 1837, which paid off ...

After a string of failed business ventures as a merchant and tanner, Brown went in search of a new direction; the mob murder of anti-slavery printer Elijah Lovejoy in 1837 provided it. At a ...

The freedom of speech is today threatened in the West to a degree not seen since the nineteenth-century classical liberals ...

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. But when the kindness and ...

Thomas Boles was born near Clarksville in July 1837. Most of his life and later career would center ... His father was a ...

Challenges: Three months into Martin Van Buren’s presidency, the Panic of 1837 engulfed the country in its worst depression ... Major Acts: Martin Van Buren opposed the expansion of slavery to the ...

This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of ...

Today is Thursday, Nov. 7, the 312th day of 2024. There are 54 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 7, 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, ...

Keir Starmer has faced renewed calls for Britain to pay slavery reparations which could far exceed £200 billion as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chgom) in Samoa gets underway.

At least seven states have taken slavery exceptions out of their constitutions. In California and Nevada, so-called slavery "loopholes" are on this year's ballot. Much like the 13th Amendment in ...

The 1837 Compensation Act led to 20 million pounds, 40% of the national budget at the time, being paid to plantation owners for the loss of their slaves. It took until 2015 for the Bank of England ...