1792-1821: 6 new slave states enter the United States: Kentucky (1792), Tennessee (1796); Louisiana (1812), Mississippi (1817), Alabama (1819), and Missouri (1821) Territory north of 36 degrees 30 ...

Trace the Mormons' path from New York to Utah Territory using this map ... supports slavery, other Missourians also oppose some Mormons' abolitionist sentiments. Following the Missouri Compromise ...

Fisk University, a historically Black university in Nashville, Tennessee, issued a statement calling the messages that ...

Juneteenth National Independence Day was launched to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.—but ... Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio ...

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 ...

framed a new idea that slavery was for the “positive good.” Major Acts: James Monroe approved the acquisition of Florida from Spain in 1819. Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise in 1820, which ...

This fails to account for the painful historic impact, and the financial benefits British slave owners gained from reparations. We have created this self-guided map to showcase sites and stories ...

We give below the text of the President's reply to the Missouri delegation ... that question is a perplexing compound -- Union and Slavery. It thus becomes a question not of two sides merely ...

The texts, which showed up as early as Wednesday morning, were reported in at least 13 states across the country.

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 ...

New Map of Britain Traces Abolitionists Who Crossed the Atlantic to End Slavery By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) - A British heritage organisation has launched a project to tell the forgotten ...

Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley and Democrat Lucas Kunce have waged a feisty and expensive race. A Hawley win could show ...