In his later years, he became an abolitionist and considered slavery against the principles of the American Revolution. As president of a Pennsylvania abolitionist society, he petitioned Congress ...

NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory ...

The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters ... died or were killed during the American Revolution. And I hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, or others ...

But by the episode's end, the transformation to a system of racial slavery is complete. On the eve of the American Revolution slavery was legal in each of the thirteen colonies -- flourishing not ...

President Trump is not just unraveling a system of government, he's denying the American Creed, the truths we have considered ...

Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American ... Prodigious Riches': The Wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution." Economic History Review 54 (3): 506–24. Carter, Susan B., Scott ...

Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this ...

U.S. concerns about the possible "contagion" of the revolution in Saint-Domingue to slaves in North America were outweighed by the political and economic advantages of working with Louverture. North ...