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Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas ...

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

So slavery is to be abolished, but it is a fundamental principle of God’s relationship with us that he does not force us to change faster than is possible of our own freewill.

Almost all of them. And white men were primarily the ones who abolished slavery on top of it. So, that's historical reality. And the fact that it's even remotely controversial to say this is is ...

By Bilal G. Morris, article courtesy of newsone.com “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” – Frederick Douglass.  […] ...

3 but was telegraphed from India only last week), the Maharaja said that the Government would assist in the suppression of slavery by buying slaves from those owners who were inclined to sell and ...

Slaves do not own their own labor. The maximum tax rate on a 19th century plantation slave’s labor was 50%, as half of his ...

At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a ...