Even if they or their loved ones were never sold, slaves had to live with the constant threat that they could be. African American women had to endure the threat and the practice of sexual ...

Learn more about slavery after the Civil War by scrolling through the timeline and map. Points on the map include photos and more information about key dates in United States history from 1860-1950.

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The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

The last known survivor of the transatlantic slave ships, brought to the US in 1860, has been identified by an academic at Newcastle University. Sally Smith was kidnapped from West Africa by slave ...

chattel slavery in North America would have persisted, even grown, well into the 20th century" had Trump been president in the 1860s. According to Zeitz, the notion that slavery would have died ...

One discussion in this book that further confirmed my own growing suspicions about American penitentiaries was the historic overview of how they were intentionally structured to mirror slavery on ...