Slavery Abolition

Skip to comments. 40 Acres and a Mule: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Danny Glover join renewed debate over reparationsABC News ^ | 06/19/2019 | By BEATRICE PETERSON and MATTHEW VANN Posted on 06/19/2019 9:55:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind Steps away from the U.S. Cap…

On December 1, 1862—a month before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation—President Abraham Lincoln wrote to Congress. He was not yet the Great Emancipator. Instead, he proposed to become the Great Compensator. Lincoln proposed a Thirteenth Amendment to the …

Over 41 issues, Harriet Beecher Stowes novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published as a serial in the abolitionist newspaper The National Era, the first installment on June 5, 1851. It was first followed by a only small group but its audience steadily grew as the s…

With the South rising again on the watch of President Donald Trump, who plans to turn the Fourth of July this year from a celebration of America to a celebration of himself, its time for Americans who champion equality to begin celebrating Juneteenth. June …

On June 19, 1865, enslaved men and women in Texas finally learned that they were free more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in rebelling states.  Every June 19th since, African America…

Juneteenth is a holiday celebrated on June 19 that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Across the country, the day is marked with events and parades.  "As a Nation, we vow to never forget the millions of African-Americans who suffered the e…

This year we celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of Walt Whitman; and by we I mean all of us who take conscious pleasure in speaking American English. Whitman invented a poetry specific to this language and open to the kinds of experience, peculiar to democr…

Today in History Today is Sunday, June 16, the 167th day of 2019. There are 198 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 16, 1858, accepting the Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said the slaver…

Last SlideNext Slide The Charles H. Wright Museums circular center echoed Saturday with a celebration of overcoming and resilience  and a remembrance of a history few are taught. The Juneteenth Jubilee welcomed hundreds at the museum to commemorate June 19,…

OPINION: Television has a way of slapping us in the face by bringing past injustices alive to confront us. This month the Netflix documentary When They See Us was released. It recounts a famous New York City miscarriage of justice that divided the city along …