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The effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed all men are created equal.
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The Convention brings together forty freed African-Americans. Its aim is to protect the rights of freed African-Americans in the United States.
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The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. As a result slavery was abolished.
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a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831 led by Nat Turner.
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an abolitionist, interracial organization in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century.
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Great Britain abolishes slavery in its colonies.
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The oldest private high school established for African Americans.
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An antislavery political organization.
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a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln which was able to change the federal legal status of enslaved people from "slave" to "free."
