Although Juneteenth is generally seen as the end of slavery in the U.S., the reality is actually more complicated.

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 ...

By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri requested to become a new state, one which allowed slavery. The North ...

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 Democrat politician Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old ...

A key revelation for Pfaelzer is that California, admitted to the union as a free state in 1850, adopted a constitution that claimed it would never "tolerate" slavery — a legally hazy term that ...

Three US states voted to outlaw all forms of slavery more than a century and a half after the United States abolished the practice. Voters in Alabama, Tennessee and Vermont approved constitutional ...

The wretched history of government in the Congo Free State by an aggregation of greedy and inhuman trusts is given by Mr. EDMUND D. MOREL in a recent pamphlet on "The Congo Slave State." ...

Voters in five states on Tuesday were asked whether to update their states’ constitutions to remove slavery and indentured servitude as potential punishments. Although the 13th Amendment to 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 ...