How did Harriet Tubman lead so many slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad? With careful planning, plenty of luck, and a little opium.“I never run my train off the track, and I never lost a passen...

1846, Hannah and Mary Townsend of the Philadelphia...  ...and Mary Townsend of the Philadelphia Female Anti- Slavery Society wrote a primer for the English alphabet....  ...t very clear to children what the continuation of slavery in the United States meant. Click on "Continue re...

During the days of slavery in America, there were plenty of people willing t...

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)

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...

Well, it's about time! The state of Miss...  ...never ratified the Amendment abolishing slavery : [Sullivan] tracked down a copy...

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...

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...

Image: Irina Silvestrova/Shutter...  ...erform daily to entertain the masses. Sounds like slavery ? PETA thinks so and they're suing ... o...

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...