Although Juneteenth is generally seen as the end of slavery in the U.S., the reality is actually more complicated.

Almost surrounded as she is by Free States, and permeated by the wind ... now hardly come into the same social category with the Slave States at all; for in the former of these States the ...

The major states’ rights issue leading up to the war concerned the right of free states and territories to exclude slavery within their borders. The Constitution’s Fugitive Slave Clause provides that ...

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In the column of free population is included the free colored population, which will amount to about 500,000. In the new Slave States, such as Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas ...

But it included loopholes to allow enslavers in slave-holding states to reclaim runaways seeking safe harbour in free states, and it used the language saying that people who had been convicted ...

Jean Pfaelzer thought she knew what injustice looked like. A longtime professor of American studies at the University of Delaware, the L.A. native forged her political consciousness at UC Berkeley ...

The 19th century Mason-Dixon Line marked the boundary between slave states in the South and free states in the North. With the Friday ruling overturning Roe V. Wade, the six conservative justices ...

Voters in three states approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fourth state ...

While Vermont's legislature was the first state to abolish adult slavery in 1777, its constitution stated that no person 21 or older should serve as a slave unless bound by their own consent or ...

Voters in four states have approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fifth state ...