When British forces under Benedict Arnold sailed up the James River to invade Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then Governor, hesitated and then fled. Years later he returned to power and became president.

click image for close-up Long after slavery had been abolished in England, the Leeds Anti-slavery Series spoke out against slavery. In this issue, the English publication included an article about ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...

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