The book is based on two decades of research into abolition, universal freedom and justice. In it, I explore the role played ...

On 1 August 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Act, which made the purchase or owning of slaves illegal in parts of the British Empire, took effect in Britain. This did not mean that all of the ...

On the assumption that slavery was a state rather than national institution, antislavery advocates at first anticipated that military defeat of the Confederacy would result in its abolition ...

But first it must be ratified by countries around the world. The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United ...

Narrator: In the 18th century, the movement to end the slave trade emerged. In Britain a powerful abolition movement inspired by activists and politicians from around the world began to bring ...

(Second Middle Passage, British abolition of slavery in 1838, horrible practice of slavery in general.) Ask students to identify the effect(s) of Nat Turner’s Rebellion. (Southern plantation ...

He publicly burned a copy of the Constitution, which he viewed as a pro-slavery document. His radicalism helped fragment the abolition movement, yet his consistent, unyielding approach to slavery ...

The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery brought into focus institutions and practices resembling slavery but which ...

president of the American Anti-Slavery Society & founder of the Journal of Commerce. The mob changed their mind when theycame to his brother's house. Lewis was equally prominent in the Abolition ...

The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950, is a history of the campaign waged by Great Britain in colonial Nigeria from approximately 1885 on, to abolish the internal slave ...

KOZHIKODE: The observance of the 170th anniversary of the declaration of abolition of slave trade in Kerala on October 16 ...