by familyvoices | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU - Bc - Slavery In America
Slavery In America – Timeline Within several decades of being brought to the American colonies, Africans were stripped of human rights and enslaved as chattel, an enslavement that lasted more than two centuries. Slavers whipped slaves who displeased them. Clergy...
by familyvoices | Jan 19, 2020 | FamU - Bc - Slavery In America
Life of a Slave: Cudjoe Lewis Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” is a non-fiction work by Zora Neale Hurston published in 2018. It is based on interviews that Hurston conducted in 1927 with Cudjoe Lewis, the last presumed living survivor of the...
by familyvoices | Jan 18, 2020 | FamU - Bc - Slavery In America
The Emancipation Proclamation President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious...
by familyvoices | Jan 17, 2020 | FamU - Bc - Slavery In America
The Abolitionist Movement The abolitionist movement was an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States. The first leaders of the campaign, which took place from about 1830 to 1870, mimicked some of the same tactics British abolitionists had...
by familyvoices | Jan 16, 2020 | FamU - Bc - Slavery In America
The 1863-65 13th Amendment The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865 in the aftermath of the Civil War, abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th Amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime...
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