Jefferson Davis, the first and last President of t... ...hat the scene “seemed in itself the doom of slavery .”Link(Photo: New York Historical Society)
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/11/Sketch-of-the-Emancipation-of-Jefferson-Daviss-Slaves/
The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi... ...ican side during the Revolutionary War. Born into slavery , Betty, her sister, and all their descendants wou... ...r sister, and all their descendants would live in slavery forever if Colonel Ashley and others like him had... ...Theodore Sedgwick, a law...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/29/Betty-Freemans-Day-in-Court/
Well, it's about time! The state of Miss... ...never ratified the Amendment abolishing slavery : [Sullivan] tracked down a copy...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/18/Mississippi-Finally-Ratified-the-13th-Amendment-Abolishing-Slavery/
Spotswood Rice had been born a slave. But by September of 1864, he was a free man and a soldier in the U.S. Army. His daughter was still enslaved in Missouri. Rice had work to do in the South, but he wanted his former mi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/letter-from-an-ex-slave-to-his-former-master-im-coming-to-get-you/
The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...er. Born into bondage, Robert Smalls rose from slavery to the Halls of Congress. In between, he helped t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/15/the-first-black-american-sea-captain/
Image: Irina Silvestrova/Shutter... ...erform daily to entertain the masses. Sounds like slavery ? PETA thinks so and they're suing ... o...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/07/peta-sues-to-end-killer-whale-slavery/
Do you remember the awesome letter attributed to Jourdon Anderson, the freedman who was asked by his ex-master to return to work? Jason Kottke and David Galbraith dug through census and newspaper records to learn mor...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/02/whatever-happened-to-the-ex-slave-who-wrote-a-letter-to-his-former-master/
By August 1865, the American Civil War was over. Many Southerners wanted to restore some semblance of normality -- as they saw it -- in their homes and communities. So Col. P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee wrote to...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/30/letter-from-an-ex-slave-to-his-former-master/
Photo: Hugo!/Flickr No, t... ...people being captured and sold in to slavery they made a contract with the Portuguese to hunt... ...e being sold in to a lifetime’s slavery and shipped across the world in appalling conditi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/19/the-venice-of-africa-2/
Fifty years after slavery was abolished, the Bronx Zoo had an exhibit in wh...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/23/the-sad-story-of-ota-benga/
