Boston, April 20th, 1773. Sir, The efforts made by the legislative [sic] of this province in their last sessions to free themselves from slavery, gave us, who are in that deplorable state, a high degree of satisfaction. ... We cannot but wish and hope, si
From the United States chronicle, Thursday, February 19, 1784. In this paper last week a clear confutation of the original claim to the right of slavery was given, by ... Judge Blackstone, -- the subject is now concluded with the sentiments of that ingeni
Benjamin Drew, a Boston abolitionist acting in cooperation with officers of the Canadian Anti-Slavery Society, visited various towns of Upper Canada around the middle 1850's, interviewing scores of refugees from the slave states and copying their wor
The entire Remembering Slavery project enables us to hear how former slaves describe - - in their own words - - what it was like to be a slave - - and to be free.
Slavery played an essential part of the economical life in the South, more in some states than in others. Virginia was not the 'leading slavestate' in 1860, but had her share of slave-exploitation. This part tries to examine Virginia's hom
This website is a compilation of information on the slaveholders and slaves who lived in and around Central Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In this essay I shall try to put slavery in proper historical perspectives, and show how the chattel slavery introduced by capitalism differs from all other forms of slavery.
Without hemp, slavery might not have flourished in Kentucky, since other agricultural products of the state were not conducive to the extensive use of bondsmen. On the hemp farm and in the hemp factories the need for laborers was filled to a large extent
