Almost surrounded as she is by Free States, and permeated by the wind ... now hardly come into the same social category with the Slave States at all; for in the former of these States the ...

Voters in three states approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fourth state ...

But it included loopholes to allow enslavers in slave-holding states to reclaim runaways seeking safe harbour in free states, and it used the language saying that people who had been convicted ...

In the column of free population is included the free colored population, which will amount to about 500,000. In the new Slave States, such as Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas ...

The 19th century Mason-Dixon Line marked the boundary between slave states in the South and free states in the North. With the Friday ruling overturning Roe V. Wade, the six conservative justices ...

Jean Pfaelzer thought she knew what injustice looked like. A longtime professor of American studies at the University of Delaware, the L.A. native forged her political consciousness at UC Berkeley ...

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, is prompting allusions to ...

Read full article: Remembering the victims of the June 12 floods in San Antonio Floria Dried Apricots. A copy of the proposed constitution of Alabama of 2022 is seen at the statehouse in ...

Voters in four states have approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fifth state ...

While Vermont's legislature was the first state to abolish adult slavery in 1777, its constitution stated that no person 21 or older should serve as a slave unless bound by their own consent or ...

WASHINGTON — Voters in three states approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a ...