A few House of Representatives members in Michigan are looking to completely end slavery or involuntary servitude in Michigan.  Four House of Representatives members introduced Michigan House Joint ...

Ashley became the driving force for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, legally ending slavery forever. [Jerry Klinger] ...

“We’re going to end slavery!” they cried. “Onto New Orleans! Freedom or death!” Scott recruited re-enactors via word-of-mouth and by holding town halls at local universities, including ...

A group of Quaker reformers had undertaken an internal “purification” campaign, calling for a return to simpler ways of living, stricter church discipline and a gradual end to slavery ...

Topher L. McDougal, University of San Diego and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, University of San Diego (THE CONVERSATION) Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was ...

When the Civil War began, Douglass hoped the goal of the war would be to end slavery. But as late as August of 1862, Lincoln announced his primary goal was to save the Union "and is not either ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, a “disaster in an otherwise blessed land.” Emma Mordecai, a Virginia Jew, prepared ...

Third, it kept the slave states in the Union, which gave free states power that they could—and later would—use to end slavery. If the Framers had tried to abolish slavery in the Constitution ...